Record Number: 20555
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 25 August 1916: 'Your welcome letter to Darkest Africa has been followed by a "real" Missionary magazine, which I have also enjoyed. Work here [as Red Cross officer tracing missing soldiers] is quieter again, which leaves me time for reading, and while you were at H. J.'s Portrait of a Lady I was tackling his latter and tougher end in the person of What Maisie Knew. I haven't [italics]quite[end italics] got through her yet, but I think I shall: she is my very limit -- beyond her lies The Golden Bowl, The Ambassadors and other impossibles. I don't think James could have helped his later manner -- is [sic] a natural development, not a pose. All that one can understand of him seems so genuine, that what one can't understand is likely to be genuine also.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Jan 1916 and 25 Aug 1916
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Type of Experience(Reader):
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solitary in company unknown
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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Female
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Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
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Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Portrait of a Lady
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
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Source Information:
Record ID:20555
Source:E. M. Forster
Editor:Mary Lago and P. N. Furbank
Title:Selected Letters of E. M. Forster
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1983
Vol:1
Page:240
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Citation:
E. M. Forster, Mary Lago and P. N. Furbank (ed.), Selected Letters of E. M. Forster, (London, 1983), 1, p. 240, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=20555, accessed: 22 November 2024
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