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Record Number: 34186


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:

Reader:

Herbert Young

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1 Jan

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Artist

Religion:

Christian

Country of Origin:

England

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:

34186

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=34186, accessed: 05 November 2024


Additional Comments:

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

   
   
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