Record Number: 33637

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

What a bloody world we are living in! To read the papers makes one quite sick and here one cannot help feeling that the horror over poor little Dollfuss is largely mixed with eagerness over the excellent excuse for waving flags on the Brenner.

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

29 Jul 1934

Country:

Italy

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Asolo
county: Veneto Region, Treviso province

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Freya Stark

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

31 Jan 1893

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Travel writer

Religion:

Christian

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

Italy

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

unknown unknown

Title:

unknown Italian newspapers

Genre:

Reference / General works

Form of Text:

Print: Newspaper

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

33637

Source:

Print

Author:

Freya Stark

Editor:

n/a

Title:

The Coast of Incense: Autobiography 1933-1939

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1953

Vol:

n/a

Page:

25

Additional Comments:

Letter to Venetia Buddicom

Citation:

Freya Stark, The Coast of Incense: Autobiography 1933-1939, (London, 1953), p. 25, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33637, accessed: 22 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

Dame Freya Madeline Stark (31 January 1893-9 May 1993) was a British travel writer and explorer. Stark lived for much of her life in Asolo, Italy. It is likely the newspapers she refers to here were Italian ones. The Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss was assassinated on 25 July 1934.