Record Number: 33872

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

‘A poor, miserable autobiographer naturally desires to make his personality as interesting to the reader as it appears to himself. I feel this strongly in reading other men’s recollections of their early years. There are, however, a few notable exceptions, the best one I know being Serge Aksakoff’s “History of my Childhood”; and in his case the picture was not falsified, simply because the temper, and tastes, and passions of his early boyhood – his intense love of his mother, of nature, of all wildness, and of sport – endured unchanged in him to the end and kept him a boy in heart, able after long years to revive the past mentally, and picture it in it true, fresh, original colours.’

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1916 and 1917

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

William Henry Hudson

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

4 Aug 1841

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Field naturalist, author

Religion:

Anglican (Protestant) in childhood only

Country of Origin:

Argentina

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Sergei Aksakoff

Title:

Years of Childhood

Genre:

Autobiog / Diary

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

first publ. in Russian 1858, first Engl. edn from Edward Arnold, London, 1916, tr. by J. D. Duff. No Spanish translations until later.

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

33872

Source:

Print

Author:

William Henry Hudson

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Far Away and Long Ago: A History of my Early Life

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1918

Vol:

n/a

Page:

226

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

William Henry Hudson, Far Away and Long Ago: A History of my Early Life, (London, 1918), p. 226, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33872, accessed: 24 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Hudson must have first read this in 1916 or 1917, as he did not read Russian and there were no Spanish or French translations before 1918.