Record Number: 22559
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Cornish writers Silas and Joseph Hocking ("Rosemary Carew", by the latter, was a tremendous favourite) and "Stella Dallas" by the American Olive Higgins Prouty. She also had a few books of her own: "The Following of the Star" by Florence L. Barclay, "The Sorrows of Satan" by Marie Corelli, and the like. I tried them all, and enjoyed most: especially "Stella Dallas", which exercised a peculiar fascination over me. I re-read it constantly and with such devotion that she forbade me ever to read it again. I couldn't think why; and not until years later did it occur to me that the central character was a prostitute'.
Century:1900-1945
Date:From: 24 Aug 1921
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Launceston
county: Cornwall
(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:Child (0-17)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:24 Aug 1917
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:later poet
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Stella Dallas
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceborrowed (public library)
borrowed by his mother from the two-pennny library
Source Information:
Record ID:22559
Source:n/a
Editor:Harry Chambers
Title:Causley at Seventy
Place of Publication:Calstock
Date of Publication:1987
Vol:n/a
Page:100-101
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Harry Chambers (ed.), Causley at Seventy, (Calstock, 1987), p. 100-101, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=22559, accessed: 25 April 2024
Additional Comments:
source: essay 'A Kitchen in the Morning' by Charles Causley
