Record Number: 19757
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I have just begun Forster's Life of Dickens again. I did not finish it before. I think that will start me off for the autumn. I want a fact book not a fiction book. There are some wonderful things in it. When Dickens finally left the blacking factory he so much hated, he wept. "With a relief so strange that it was like oppression, I went home".'
Century:1900-1945
Date:28 Aug 1938
Country:England
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:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:31 Mar 1899
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:writer
Religion:[lapsed] Catholic
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
christened Eirene Botting
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Life of Charles Dickens, The
Genre:Biography
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:19757
Source:Antonia White
Editor:Susan Chitty
Title:Antonia White. Diaries 1926-1957
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1991
Vol:I
Page:150
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
Antonia White, Susan Chitty (ed.), Antonia White. Diaries 1926-1957, (London, 1991), I, p. 150, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19757, accessed: 18 July 2024
Additional Comments:
None