Record Number: 3928

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'The retired Governor of Madras Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff, to whom Mrs [Humphry] Ward read extracts from "Robert Elsmere "before it was published, was arrested by the novel's passages of "extraordinary power"...'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

unknown

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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Mrs Humphry Ward

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

11 Jun 1851

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

Church of England

Country of Origin:

Tasmania

Country of Experience:

England

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

Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Mary Augusta Ward

Title:

Robert Elsmere

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

3928

Source:

Print

Author:

Philip Waller

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

2006

Vol:

n/a

Page:

1033

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Philip Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918, (Oxford, 2006), p. 1033, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=3928, accessed: 09 May 2025

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Additional Comments:

Quotation from Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff, Notes from a Diary 2:26 (entry for 10 February 1888).