Record Number: 3137
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
On publication of illustrated edition of Chambers's Encyclopedia in 1906: "G. K. Chesterton did not need the incentive of illustrations ... [he] had already 'read whole volues of Chambers's Encyclopedia ...'"
Century:1850-1899, 1900-1945
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Type of Experience(Reader):
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single serial unknown
(Listener):
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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Unknown
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:1874
Socio-Economic Group:Unknown/NA
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Religion:unknown
Country of Origin:unknown
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Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Chambers's Encyclopedia
Genre:Reference / General works
Form of Text:Print: Book
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Source Information:
Record ID:3137
Source:Philp Waller
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Title:Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918
Place of Publication:Oxford
Date of Publication:2006
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Page:67
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Citation:
Philp Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918, (Oxford, 2006), p. 67, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=3137, accessed: 27 September 2024
Additional Comments:
Quotation from Maisie Ward, Return to Chesterton (1952) 15.