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Record Number: 33720


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'One smiles at the vision of the gentle Richard Jefferies slaughtering wild cattle in the palaeolithic way, but that feeling and desire which he describes with such passion in his "Story of my Heart", that survival of the past, is not uncommon in the hearts of hunters'

Century:

1850-1899, 1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 May 1883 and 1918

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

William Henry Hudson

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

4 Aug 1841

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Naturalist, writer

Religion:

Christian (Protestant), in childhood only

Country of Origin:

Argentina

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Richard Jefferies

Title:

The Story of My Heart

Genre:

Autobiog / Diary

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

London: Longman's, 1883

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

33720

Source:

Print

Author:

William Henry Hudson

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Far Away and Long Ago: A History of My Early Life

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1918

Vol:

n/a

Page:

124

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

William Henry Hudson, Far Away and Long Ago: A History of My Early Life, (London, 1918), p. 124, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33720, accessed: 03 October 2024


Additional Comments:

(John) Richard Jefferies (1848–1887), English nature writer, who depicted English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels. Hudson may have read this work soon after its publication and before he himself began to write about the English countryside, or later when researching his own works. This evidence of reading is another example (see also ID 33719)of a childhood memory (this time of an incident with a troop of rebel soldiers passing though the Hudson family estancia) resurrected for a late autobiography, but also linked to a memory of more recent adult reading.

   
   
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