Record Number: 3753

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'In Switzerland in 1908 Arnold Bennett met in his hotel an Anglo-Indian army major ... Bennett thought of engaging his opinions about Indian government reform until he noticed the book which the major was reading. It was Corelli's Holy Orders (1908), whereupon, Bennett recorded, "I then gave up hope".'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

1908

Country:

Switzerland

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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:

anon

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Army Major

Religion:

unknown

Country of Origin:

unknown

Country of Experience:

Switzerland

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

Anglo-Indian army officer

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Marie Corelli

Title:

Holy Orders

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

1908

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

3753

Source:

Print

Author:

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:

789

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Philip Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918, (Oxford, 2006), p. 789, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=3753, accessed: 22 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

Quotation from Newman Flower, ed., The Journals of Arnold Bennett (1932) 1:302.