Record Number: 18767
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Her reading as a child was voracious, although her late start in learning to read for herself left her with a cosy taste for being read to. Her governess hads read aloud to her the story of Perseus and "Jungle Jinks" and most things in between. Once she read for herself, she had a passion for George Macdonald: his Curdie was one of her heroes. She loved Baroness Orczy's "Scarlet Pimpernel", and E. Nesbit's books. She read Dickens exhaustively as a child and, as a result, could not read him as a young adult: "There is no more oxygen left, for me, anywhere in the atmosphere of his writings".'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 7 Jun 1906 and 7 Jun 1915
Country:Ireland
Timen/a
Place:n/a
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:Female
Date of Birth:7 Jun 1899
Socio-Economic Group:Gentry
Occupation:later writer
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:Anglican
Country of Experience:Ireland
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:[probably] Princess and Curdie, The
Genre:Fiction, Children's Lit
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:18767
Source:Victoria Glendinning
Editor:n/a
Title:Elizabeth Bowen: Portrait of a Writer
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1977
Vol:n/a
Page:31
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Victoria Glendinning, Elizabeth Bowen: Portrait of a Writer, (London, 1977), p. 31, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18767, accessed: 30 December 2024
Additional Comments:
Other works by Macdonald include 'The Princess and the Goblin'.
