Record Number: 3579
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Constance Smedley on readings in American literature: "'Thoreau ... opened the door to a philosophy of life when I was about fifteen ... in his train came Emerson and Lowell ...'"
Century:1850-1899
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Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Female
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Source Information:
Record ID:3579
Source:Philip Waller
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Title:Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918
Place of Publication:Oxford
Date of Publication:2006
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Page:586
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Citation:
Philip Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918, (Oxford, 2006), p. 586, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=3579, accessed: 17 August 2024
Additional Comments:
Quotation from Constance Smedley, Crusaders (1929).