Record Number: 33952

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I owe you my best thanks for the gift of Mrs Cornford’s book of poems which I am delighted to have. I have been away in Wiltshire or would have thanked you sooner. I have just seen in today’s "Morning Post" a highly appreciative notice of the poems and I hear from Edward Thomas that he has sent a good review of the book to the "Chronicle", and if there should be more notices as good the poems will have a first rate send off. I was glad because from my first sight of Mrs Cornford’s poems I was convinced that she had an original and beautiful note, and I should not like to hear from the professional poetry-teachers that I was mistaken.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Mar 1910 and 31 Mar 1910

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: London
specific address: 40 St Luke's Road

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:

William Henry Hudson

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

4 Aug 1841

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Field naturalist, author

Religion:

Protestant (Anglican) in childhood only

Country of Origin:

Argentina

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Frances Crofts Cornford

Title:

Poems

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

London & Cambridge: Priory Press; Bowes & Bowes, 1910

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

33952

Source:

Print

Author:

William Henry Hudson

Editor:

Denis Shrubsall

Title:

The Unpublished Letters of W. H. Hudson, the First Literary Environmentalist, 1841-1922

Place of Publication:

Lewiston, N.Y.

Date of Publication:

2006

Vol:

2

Page:

435-6

Additional Comments:

Letter from Hudson to William Rothenstein, 31 March 1910, 40 St Luke's Road, West London.

Citation:

William Henry Hudson, Denis Shrubsall (ed.), The Unpublished Letters of W. H. Hudson, the First Literary Environmentalist, 1841-1922, (Lewiston, N.Y., 2006), 2, p. 435-6, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33952, accessed: 22 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

Frances Darwin Crofts Cornford (1886-1960) was a granddaughter of Charles Darwin, and married to the classicist and poet Francis Cornford.