Record Number: 18010
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'He discussed books with me and gave me my first volume of poetry, Selected Poems of Matthew Arnold, marking his favourites.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:unknown
Country:unknown
Timen/a
Place:n/a
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:16 Oct 1854
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer
Religion:unknown
Country of Origin:Ireland
Country of Experience:unknown
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Selected Poems of Matthew Arnold
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:18010
Source:Nellie Sickert
Editor:n/a
Title:I Have Been Young
Place of Publication:n/a
Date of Publication:1935
Vol:n/a
Page:n/a
Additional Comments:
Quoted in The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde, eds. Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis (NY: Henry Holt & Co., 2000), p.83 (n.1)
Citation:
Nellie Sickert, I Have Been Young, (1935), http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18010, accessed: 18 July 2024
Additional Comments:
The edition and date of the reading experience is unknown, though Holland and Hart-Davis note that the inscription on the volume indicates that Sickert received the book as a gift from Oscar Wilde in 1879, indicating that the experience took place before then.