Record Number: 24051
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'[letter to Mrs Ward from Mr Creighton] I have read "Miss Bretherton" with much interest. It was hardly fair on the book to know the plot beforehand, but I found myself carried away by the delicate feeling with which the development of character was traced. The Nuneham scene, the death-bed and the final reconciliation were really touching and powerfully worked out. At the same time it is not a novel of my sort. I demand that I should have given me an entire slice of life, and that I should see the mutual interaction of a number of characters. Your interest centres entirely on one character: your characters all move in the same region of ideas, and that a narrow one.' [the critique continues at length; Creighton asks Mrs Ward] 'Have you read Sainte Beuve's solitary novel, "Volupte"? it is instructive reading.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Until: 31 Dec 1884
Country:England
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Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:n/a
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Oxford academic
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:n/a
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author:Charles Augustin de Sainte-Beuve
Title:Volupte
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
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Source Information:
Record ID:24051
Source:Janet Penrose Trevelyan
Editor:n/a
Title:The Life of Mrs Humphry Ward
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1923
Vol:n/a
Page:44
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Janet Penrose Trevelyan, The Life of Mrs Humphry Ward, (London, 1923), p. 44, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=24051, accessed: 09 May 2025
Additional Comments:
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