Record Number: 33968
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I’ve read nothing but poetry since I saw you, except one novel, a curious rough sort of book called "Fortuna Chance" by James Prior, the scene laid in Sherwood Forest, very good in some ways but rather hard to read.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 14 Feb 1911 and 25 Feb 1911
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: London
specific address: 40 St Luke's Road, West London
(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:4 Aug 1841
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Field naturalist, author
Religion:Protestant (Anglican) 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: Title:Fortuna Chance
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsLondon: Constable, 1910
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:33968
Source:William Henry Hudson
Editor:Denis Shrubsall
Title:The Unpublished Letters of W. H. Hudson, the First Literary Environmentalist, 1841-1922
Place of Publication:Lewiston, N.Y.
Date of Publication:2006
Vol:2
Page:449
Additional Comments:
Letter from Hudson to Margaret Brooke, Dowager Ranee of Sarawak, 25 February 1911, 40 St Luke's Road, West London.
Citation:
William Henry Hudson, Denis Shrubsall (ed.), The Unpublished Letters of W. H. Hudson, the First Literary Environmentalist, 1841-1922, (Lewiston, N.Y., 2006), 2, p. 449, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33968, accessed: 11 May 2025
Additional Comments:
This was a historical-regional novel, praised by Thomas Hardy and John Buchan (see Kemp, Mitchell and Trotter, 'Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction' 1997, p. 321). James Prior was the pseudonym of James P. Kirk.
