Record Number: 3425
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
In her Writer's Recollections (1919; pp.325-26), Mrs Humphrey Ward would remember an occasion in Italy when, Paul Bourget having failed to translate Kipling's "McAndrew's Hymn" into French, Henry James 'straight away put it into "vigorous idiomatic French" ...'
Century:1850-1899
Date:unknown
Country:Italy
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Place:n/a
Type of Experience(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:15 Apr 1843
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer
Religion:unknown
Country of Origin:USA
Country of Experience:Italy
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:McAndrew's Hymn
Genre:Classics, Poetry
Form of Text:Unknown
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Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:3425
Source: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:321
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Philip Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918, (Oxford, 2006), p. 321, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=3425, accessed: 17 August 2024
Additional Comments:
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