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Record Number: 34185


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

I am grateful for the leisure of my years, whether voluntary or enforced — for long stretches of sickness or of holiday, and also for small snippets like those produced by the habit of dressing for the evening. It meant a casting away as it were of the day's business. After dinner, in Asolo, Herbert Young would read aloud while we embroidered; later on, he and my mother took to bridge; and in any case all solitary activities were laid aside and a sort of emptiness built around the folding of the day.

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1929 and 31 Dec 1929

Country:

Italy

Time

evening
night

Place:

city: Asolo
county: Veneto
specific address: 'Villa Freya'

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:

Listener:

Flora Stark

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

1 Jan 1863

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Artist

Religion:

Christian

Country of Origin:

Italy

Country of Experience:

Italy

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

[Anon] [Anon]

Title:

[unknown]

Genre:

Unknown

Form of Text:

Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

34185

Source:

Print

Author:

Freya Stark

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Beyond Euphrates: Autobiography 1928-1933

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1951

Vol:

n/a

Page:

23

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Freya Stark, Beyond Euphrates: Autobiography 1928-1933, (London, 1951), p. 23, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=34185, accessed: 08 November 2024


Additional Comments:

Flora Stark (1863-1944) was the mother of Dame Freya Madeline Stark (31 January 1893 - 9 May 1993), a British explorer and travel writer. This listening experience took place during 1929, when Freya Stark was in her mother's house in Asolo. The landscape artist and family friend Herbert Young also lived there.

   
   
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