Record Number: 14142
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Now about my reading, -- I have L?on Daudet?s ?Clemenceau?. The book is more interesting to me for the light it throws on L?on Daudet than on its subject ? a person (Clemenceau) that I find thoroughly repugnant. I suppose I ought to read Ren? Benjamin?s ?life?, as I heard him lecture on it at Bordeaux, but certainly I do not find the ?Tiger? a pleasant person in any way at all. But I find Daudet rather attractive, and indeed surprisingly reasonable in his criticism of people whose politics must have been the opposite of his own. The exception is Briand, but I cannot imagine any human being so disgusting as the person described by Daudet under that name ? it is impossible. Malvy and Caillaux also get it hot. But there are descriptions of the Goncourt group which I liked very much, and altogether I enjoyed the ?Frenchness? of the writer.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Jan 1941 and 31 Jan 1941
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Birkenhead
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:Female
Date of Birth:23 Feb 1877
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Teacher and Labour Councilor
Religion:Quaker
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
nee Booth
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Clemenceau
Genre:Biography
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:14142
Source:Manuscript
Author:Winifred Agnes Moore [nee Booth]
Title:MS Letters from Winifred Moore, 1928-1941
Location:private collection
Call No:January 1941
Page/Folio:n/a
Additional Information:
Letter to her son, Gerald Moore, dated January, 1941.
Citation:
Winifred Agnes Moore [nee Booth], MS Letters from Winifred Moore, 1928-1941, private collection, January 1941, n/a, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=14142, accessed: 18 July 2024
Additional Comments:
This material copyright Shirley Gould Smith and Andrew Neill Vanson Moore.