Record Number: 20064
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
' "Junior," she said to him, "you reeely must look. You remember Mrs Furnivall said that the part between Dieppy and Purris was vurry vurry interesting." Junior merely grunted and went on reading "Time". And I, pretending to read Charles Lamb, wondered how a woman of over forty could still suppose Dieppe was called Dieppy.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 21 Nov 1886 and 30 Aug 1935
Country:France
Timen/a
Place:other location: 0n a train from Dieppe
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:n/a
Socio-Economic Group:Unknown/NA
Occupation:unknown
Religion:unknown
Country of Origin:American
Country of Experience:France
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Time
Genre:Miscellany / Anthology
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:20064
Source:Harold Nicolson
Editor:Nigel Nicolson
Title:Vita and Harold
Place of Publication:Great Britain
Date of Publication:1992
Vol:n/a
Page:275
Additional Comments:
Quotation taken from a letter dated 30 August 1935, written at the Ritz Hotel, Paris, by Harold Nicolson to Vita Sackville-West.
Citation:
Harold Nicolson, Nigel Nicolson (ed.), Vita and Harold, (Great Britain, 1992), p. 275, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=20064, accessed: 27 September 2024
Additional Comments:
In the first sentence of the letter Harold says that he was on a train from Dieppe in a compartment with three Americans, a father, mother and son (Junior).