Record Number: 34029
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Thank you for "Punch" and all the letters of the last few days [...]. I send you a copy of today's "Statesman" since you care to read my stuff. If when you come up you can bring it with you I can post it to my sister and so escape the additional expense of another copy: I always keep one for myself to file. [...] Hardy is an artist—I'm just reading his "Changed Man", newly published; but what a pitiful creed was his, is his, compared with that of our grand old Wallace.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 7 Dec 1913 and 8 Dec 1913
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: London
specific address: 40 St Luke's Road
(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 and 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:A Changed Man, the Waiting Supper and Other Tales: Concluding with the Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsNew York: Harper, 1913
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:34029
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Title:The Unpublished Letters of W. H. Hudson, the First Literary Environmentalist, 1841-1922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:481
Additional Comments:
Letter from Hudson to Margaret Brooke, Dowager Ranee of Sarawak, 8 November 1913, 40 St. Luke's Road, W. 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William Henry Hudson, Denis Shrubsall (ed.), The Unpublished Letters of W. H. Hudson, the First Literary Environmentalist, 1841-1922, (Lewiston, N.Y., 2006), 2, p. 481, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=34029, accessed: 17 August 2024
Additional Comments:
This evidence is submitted in detail since it also provides information about the circulation of texts (Hudson's sister Mary Ellen lived in Argentina), attesting to the rich interchange of reading material, including periodicals, between Hudson and Lady Brooke (who regularly travelled up to London from Ascot, and exchanged several letters each week with Hudson); it also makes allusion to their undoubted repeated reading of the works of Alfred Russel Wallace who had died the day before. The actual reading experience reported here is however the Hardy volume of short stories and a novella which had appeared just the month before.