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
Timeevening
night
city: Asolo
county: Veneto
specific address: 'Villa Freya'
(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: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
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:[unknown]
Genre:Unknown
Form of Text:Unknown
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:34186
Source: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:
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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: 19 April 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.
