Record Number: 12363
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Tuesday 12th July. I do not like ?Lolly Willowes?. [...] I do not like these fantastic things which suggest that they have something to tell which one is too stupid to discover. I am not stupid, and if a writer deliberately sets out either to obscure or to deliberately draw red-herrings across the track of analysis, then it is the author?s fault if the reader?s ideas do not coincide with the writer?s intentions. I do not know what ?Lolly Willowes? ?means?. If it is about witchcraft or the witch temperament or a peculiar eccentricity of outlook which may be termed the witch mind, well and good, But the fantastic flickering style of the prose, whilst delightful to read as poetic word sequences, annoys me when I desire to know how far the author desires to be taken simply and literally, and know the reader is expected to gather the point of the book or to exercise his own fancy on it. I can however understand the queer blurred effect of the world as seen by the reader through the heroine?s eyes. I have felt the world about me in similarly usual fashion, but what has this to do with witchcraft: Indigestion possibly.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:12 Jul 1926
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Liverpool
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:16 Jun 1903
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Coffee then Cocoa broker, working for Unilever - United Africa Company
Religion:none
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Lolly Willowes
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailspublished 1926
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:12363
Source:Manuscript
Author:Gerald Moore
Title:MS Diary 1926
Location:Private Collection
Call No:MS Diary 1926
Page/Folio:n/a
Additional Information:
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Citation:
Gerald Moore, MS Diary 1926, Private Collection, MS Diary 1926, n/a, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=12363, accessed: 28 March 2024
Additional Comments:
This material Copyright Andrew Neill Vanson Moore, and Shirley Frances Gould-Smith.