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Record Number: 33976


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I enjoyed your tales, the uneasy ones ["Tales of the Uneasy"]—nasty on any night before going to bed. I wonder which famous case you were thinking of when you wrote “The Tiger Skin”. Was it Penrudduck? That great house is now a desolation, and I believe no visitors go there [...] Some of your stories are rather horrible.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1911 and 20 Feb 1911

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: London
specific address: 40 St Luke's Road, West London

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:

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:

Violet Hunt

Title:

Tales of the Uneasy

Genre:

Fiction, Miscellany / Anthology

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

London: Heinemann, 1911

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

33976

Source:

Print

Author:

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The Unpublished Letters of W. H. Hudson, the First Literary Environmentalist, 1841-1922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:

452

Additional Comments:

Letter from Hudson to Violet Hunt, 20 March 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William Henry Hudson, Denis Shrubsall (ed.), The Unpublished Letters of W. H. Hudson, the First Literary Environmentalist, 1841-1922, (Lewiston, N.Y., 2006), 2, p. 452, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33976, accessed: 12 October 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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