Record Number: 4868
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Murray (of the Hand-Books) has lately put forward a work which I have found very full of entertaining reading: a couple of well-sized volumes treating of every place of the smallest individuality within circuit of twenty miles round London'
Century:1850-1899
Date:1877
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: London
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:1843
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:USA
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 guidebook to the areas round London]
Genre:Geography / Travel, Guide book
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsJohn Murray
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:4868
Source:Henry James
Editor:n/a
Title:The Suburbs of London
Place of Publication:n/a
Date of Publication:1877
Vol:n/a
Page:n/a
Additional Comments:
in Henry James, Collected Travel Writings: Great Britain and America (The Library of America, New York, 1993), ed. Richard Howard, p. 276
Citation:
Henry James, The Suburbs of London, (1877), http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=4868, accessed: 27 September 2024
Additional Comments:
None