Record Number: 21193
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
From Diary of E. M. Forster, 8 September 1940: 'London Burning! I watched this event from my Chiswick flat last night with disgust and indignation, but with no intensity though the spectacle was superb, I thought It is nothing like the burning of Troy. Yet the Surrey Docks were ablaze, at the back with towers and spires outlines [sic] against them, greenish yellow searchlights swept the sky in futile agony [...] Now and then tracts of the horizon flashed a ghastly electric green. Or the fire ahead burst up as I hoped it was dying down. "Oh!" I cried once faintly, then returned to my bed and read Middlemarch.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 7 Sep 1940 and 8 Sep 1940
Country:England
Timen/anight
Place:city: Chiswick
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:1 Jan 1879
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer
Religion:n/a
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:Middlemarch
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:21193
Source:E. M. Forster
Editor:Philip Gardner
Title:Commonplace Book
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1985
Vol:n/a
Page:312-313
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
E. M. Forster, Philip Gardner (ed.), Commonplace Book, (London, 1985), p. 312-313, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=21193, accessed: 27 April 2024
Additional Comments:
Diary entry extracted in ed. note in source.
