Record Number: 30307
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'In one letter, written in June 1893, he logs Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Lorna Doone ("seventh or eighth time"), Saintsbury's Essays on French Novelists, Dumas's Tulipe Noire, Maupassant, and some poems of Hugo and Gautier. A month later he is reporting on Andrew Lang's Lectures on Literature ("very good"), P. G. Hamerton's Intellectual Life ("excellent"), the poems of Robert Bridges ("very good") Henry James's Madonna of the Future ("peculiar"), R. L. Stevenson's Kidnapped and Master of Ballantrae ("fourth or fifth time"), Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris, and Ibsen's Doll House, League of Youth and Pillars of Society. "I am beginning to like Ibsen more than I did. I understand him better."'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Jul 1893
Country:U.K.
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:n/a
Date of Birth:26 Aug 1875
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
cleric's son
student
Religion:C of Scotland
Country of Origin:Scotland
Country of Experience:U.K.
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Madonna of the Future
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:30307
Source:Janet Adam Smith
Editor:n/a
Title:John Buchan: A Biography
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1965
Vol:n/a
Page:36
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
Janet Adam Smith, John Buchan: A Biography, (London, 1965), p. 36, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=30307, accessed: 25 November 2024
Additional Comments:
None
