Record Number: 11392
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'So that, whatever may have been its deeper cause, the love which filled my imagination was of a kind that seemed, to me, to have little to do with what I meant by sex. "Love" was something I had learned about from "David Copperfield" and "Under the Greenwood Tree" and from the stories in "The Woman's Weekly", which my mother occasionally bought. And of course, from the poetry I was beginning to enjoy. I was naively oblivious to the sexual innuendoes of Keats and Tennyson but their romantic raptures set me trembling like a tuning fork. "Come into the garden, Maud" roused nothing of the derision, or even downright ribaldry, that it would surely rouse in a boy of today.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Jan 1926 and 1 Jan 1932
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Millom
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:Child (0-17)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:8 Jan 1914
Socio-Economic Group:Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Occupation:son of tailor
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Under the Greenwood Tree
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:11392
Source:Norman Nicholson
Editor:n/a
Title:Wednesday Early Closing
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1975
Vol:n/a
Page:171
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Norman Nicholson, Wednesday Early Closing, (London, 1975), p. 171, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=11392, accessed: 22 November 2024
Additional Comments:
None
