Record Number: 3180

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Walt Whitman ... recalled in old age ... [having read The Heart of Midlothian] "a dozen times or more"'.

Century:

1850-1899, 1900-1945

Date:

unknown

Country:

unknown

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Walt Whitman

Age:

Unknown

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1819

Socio-Economic Group:

Unknown/NA

Occupation:

Poet

Religion:

unknown

Country of Origin:

America

Country of Experience:

unknown

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Walter Scott

Title:

The Heart of Midlothian

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

3180

Source:

Print

Author:

Philip Waller

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

2006

Vol:

n/a

Page:

178

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Philip Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918, (Oxford, 2006), p. 178, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=3180, accessed: 22 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

None