Record Number: 33439
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Nearly finished the life of Tolstoy - very difficult person. Glad he was no relation of mine. Saints seem as difficult as geniuses . . . Tolstoy was both, and I don't wonder his wife gave way to her feelings in her diary.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:29 May 1941
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: London
county: Middlesex
specific address: 56 Ladbroke Road
(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:Female
Date of Birth:1 Jan 1901
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Social worker
Religion:Church of England
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:Count Leo Tolstoy: A New Portrait
Genre:History, Biography
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsLondon: Hutchinson, 1934
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:33439
Source:Vere Hodgson
Editor:n/a
Title:Few Eggs and No Oranges: A Diary Showing How Unimportant People in London and Birmingham Lived through the War Years, 1940-45, Written in the Notting Hill Area of London
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1999
Vol:n/a
Page:178
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Vere Hodgson, Few Eggs and No Oranges: A Diary Showing How Unimportant People in London and Birmingham Lived through the War Years, 1940-45, Written in the Notting Hill Area of London, (London, 1999), p. 178, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33439, accessed: 25 April 2024
Additional Comments:
It is possible that the life of Tolstoy read by Hodgson was not this one but Aylmer Maude, The Life of Tolstoy 2 vols (London: Constable 1908; 1910).
