Record Number: 7046
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 28 April 1891: "I return the Ibsenite volume with many thanks -- especially for the opportunity to read your charming preface which is really ... more interesting than Ibsen himself ... I think you make him out a richer phenomenon than he is. The perusal of the dreary Rosmersholm and even the reperusal of Ghosts has been rather a shock to me -- they have let me down, down."
Century:1850-1899
Date:28 Apr 1891
Country:unknown
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Type of Experience(Reader):
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(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
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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:unknown
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Rosmersholm
Genre:Drama
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsIn Lovell's Series of Foreign Literature edition of Ibsen, Works (1890)
Provenanceborrowed (other)
Source Information:
Record ID:7046
Source:Henry James
Editor:Leon Edel
Title:Henry James: Letters
Place of Publication:Cambridge, Massachusetts
Date of Publication:1980
Vol:3
Page:340
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Henry James, Leon Edel (ed.), Henry James: Letters, (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1980), 3, p. 340, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=7046, accessed: 18 July 2024
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