Record Number: 6477

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Henry James to Grace Norton, 6 April 1869, on fellow spa visitors, Great Malvern: "They are mostly a plain, civil, amiable lot -- addicted to reading the Telegraph and Standard -- by day and playing interminable rubbers by night. We have a number of Indian officers ... a high conservative and radically stupid fox-hunting clergyman -- a very gentlemanly and indifferent young squire ... and a great variety of other specimens of the British world."

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

6 Apr 1869

Country:

England

Time

daytime

Place:

city: Great Malvern
county: Worcestershire

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:

Reading Group:

visitors staying at Great Malvern

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Various

Religion:

various

Country of Origin:

various

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

The Telegraph

Genre:

Reference / General works

Form of Text:

Print: Newspaper

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

6477

Source:

Print

Author:

Henry James

Editor:

Leon Edel

Title:

Henry James: Letters

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Date of Publication:

1975

Vol:

1

Page:

107

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Henry James, Leon Edel (ed.), Henry James: Letters, (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1975), 1, p. 107, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=6477, accessed: 31 January 2025

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Additional Comments:

None