Record Number: 34058

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Eleanor in great pain. Very brave but collapsed—throat ghastly. O Henry ... no good as a pick-me-up. Tried gramophone—better ... One feels so isolated all alone with a very sick girl. Every one is away and I want the sea—the sea. Went for a walk in Kensington Gardens. Read Bertrand Russell, Problems of Philosophy. Remembered my throat paint. Tried it, did Eleanor good. We sat & watched her cough up matter into the basalt bowl. Normally it would have made us both sick, as it was we were wild with interest.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

30 Jul 1916

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: London
specific address: 27 Ferncroft Avenue, Hampstead

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:

Mary Franeis Butts

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

13 Dec 1890

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

Occultist/Thelemite

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

O. Henry (pseud)

Title:

[unknown]

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

34058

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Nathalie Blondel

Title:

The Journals of Mary Butts

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT

Date of Publication:

2002

Vol:

n/a

Page:

46

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Nathalie Blondel (ed.), The Journals of Mary Butts, (New Haven, CT, 2002), p. 46, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=34058, accessed: 25 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

Butts's phrase, "I want the sea—the sea," is a Xenophon reference.