Record Number: 28796
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'As for your paper it is charming.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Between 1 Mar 1880 and 1 Feb 1882
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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:Author, Poet and Journalist
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:Ireland
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Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Stoddart's Review
Genre:Essays / Criticism
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:28796
Source:Oscar Wilde
Editor:Merlin Holland
Title:The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde
Place of Publication:New York
Date of Publication:2000
Vol:n/a
Page:140
Additional Comments:
Source is a letter to J. M. Stoddart, probably from February 1882, included in Merlin Holland & Rupert Hart-Davis, eds., The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 2000)
Citation:
Oscar Wilde, Merlin Holland (ed.), The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde, (New York, 2000), p. 140, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28796, accessed: 17 August 2024
Additional Comments:
Wilde professes to have read the paper in question. I take him at his word.