Record Number: 33872
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
‘A poor, miserable autobiographer naturally desires to make his personality as interesting to the reader as it appears to himself. I feel this strongly in reading other men’s recollections of their early years. There are, however, a few notable exceptions, the best one I know being Serge Aksakoff’s “History of my Childhood”; and in his case the picture was not falsified, simply because the temper, and tastes, and passions of his early boyhood – his intense love of his mother, of nature, of all wildness, and of sport – endured unchanged in him to the end and kept him a boy in heart, able after long years to revive the past mentally, and picture it in it true, fresh, original colours.’
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1916 and 1917
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:Male
Date of Birth:4 Aug 1841
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Field naturalist, author
Religion:Anglican (Protestant) in childhood only
Country of Origin:Argentina
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Years of Childhood
Genre:Autobiog / Diary
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsfirst publ. in Russian 1858, first Engl. edn from Edward Arnold, London, 1916, tr. by J. D. Duff. No Spanish translations until later.
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:33872
Source:William Henry Hudson
Editor:n/a
Title:Far Away and Long Ago: A History of my Early Life
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1918
Vol:n/a
Page:226
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
William Henry Hudson, Far Away and Long Ago: A History of my Early Life, (London, 1918), p. 226, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33872, accessed: 18 July 2024
Additional Comments:
Hudson must have first read this in 1916 or 1917, as he did not read Russian and there were no Spanish or French translations before 1918.