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Record Number: 25131


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I have just read DH Lawrence's "Kangaroo". How I hated (in italics) it! Altho I think the Chapter about the War is well written, but it is so full of Spite, bitterness & nasty "cur" like ( in italics) snarly feeling. Odd again, for I never saw that side of him. have you read his "Letters"?'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 12 Nov 1932 and 9 Jan 1933

Country:

Englnd

Time

n/a

Place:

city: London
specific address: 10 Gower Street WC1

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


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Ottoline Morrell

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

16 Jun 1873

Socio-Economic Group:

Royalty / aristocracy

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

Christian

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

Englnd

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

David Herbert Lawrence

Title:

Kangaroo

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

1923

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

25131

Source:

Print

Author:

Ottoline Morrell

Editor:

helen Shaw

Title:

Dear Lady Ginger an exchange of letters between Lady Ottoline Morrell and D' Arcy Cresswell together with Ottoline Morrell's essay on Katherine Mansfield

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1984

Vol:

n/a

Page:

49

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Ottoline Morrell, helen Shaw (ed.), Dear Lady Ginger an exchange of letters between Lady Ottoline Morrell and D' Arcy Cresswell together with Ottoline Morrell's essay on Katherine Mansfield , (London, 1984), p. 49, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=25131, accessed: 28 March 2024


Additional Comments:

It is important to remember the extent to which Ottoline Morrell was crushed by Lawrence's unflattering and loosely veiled references to her in Women in Love published in 1920. Her use of capital letters is not necessarily linked to this however, as this is a trait in her writing.

   
   
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