Record Number: 25905
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Wet all day. Read Andersen's tales. There is a strange mingling of false sentiment - unchildlike - with their delicate fancy and wit; too much of rosebowers and crystal palaces, prettily heaped together but without detail of parts or bearing on the story. On the whole, I am disappointed in him. The ugly duck is perfect; the "fat needle" very good. Nearly all the others, too much of opera nymph in them, or of pure ugliness and painfulness - the princess maing the nettle-shirts, and the "grand Klaus" killing his nurse, and many other such pieces, quite spoiling the tone of the book for me.'
Century:1800-1849
Date:8 Sep 1856
Country:France
Timen/a
Place:city: St Laurent
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:8 Feb 1819
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:art critic and social critic
Religion:Church of England (evangelical)
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:France
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:[tales]
Genre:Fiction, Children's Lit
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:25905
Source:John Ruskin
Editor:Joan Evans
Title:The diaries of John Ruskin
Place of Publication:Oxford
Date of Publication:1956
Vol:2
Page:519
Additional Comments:
continuous pagination through vols
Citation:
John Ruskin, Joan Evans (ed.), The diaries of John Ruskin, (Oxford, 1956), 2, p. 519, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=25905, accessed: 29 April 2024
Additional Comments:
None
