Record Number: 33962
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Tell Sylvia that when I came back [from Norfolk a week before] I read the rest of "Uncle Paul’s Education" and that though there are beautiful things in it and a beautiful idea running through the whole of it I don’t altogether like it.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 30 Aug 1910 and 5 Sep 1910
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: London
specific address: 40 St Luke's Road, West London
(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: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
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:The Education of Uncle Paul
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsLondon: Macmillan, 1909
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:33962
Source: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Title:The Unpublished Letters of W. H. Hudson, the First Literary Environmentalist, 1841-1922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:439-40
Additional Comments:
Letter from Hudson to the Hon. Dorothy Brett, 5 September 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William Henry Hudson, Denis Shrubsall (ed.), The Unpublished Letters of W. H. Hudson, the First Literary Environmentalist, 1841-1922, (Lewiston, N.Y., 2006), 2, p. 439-40, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33962, accessed: 22 November 2024
Additional Comments:
Sylvia Brett was a daughter of Viscount Esher and soon to be married to Vyner Brooke and become the last Ranee of Sarawak. Dorothy was her sister.
