Record Number: 4880
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
' ... [The Viscountess Rhondda] recounts the difficulty she had in acquiring ... Havelock Ellis's Psychology of Sex: even her father was not able to go straight to a shop and buy the set of volumes for himself.' "'One had to produce some kind of signed certificate from the doctor or lawer to the effect that one was a suitable person to read it. To his surprise he could not at first obtain it. I still remember his amused indignation that he was refused a book which his own daughter had already read.' " ... the Viscountess had been able to obtain it from the Cavendish Bentinck Library, the membership of which was limited to women."
Century:1850-1899, 1900-1945
Date:unknown
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:n/a
Type of Experience(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:n/a
Socio-Economic Group:Royalty / aristocracy
Occupation:Aristocrat
Religion:unknown
Country of Origin:unknown
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:The Psychology of Sex
Genre:Social Science, Psychology
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceborrowed (other)
Borrowed/read from private members' club library
Source Information:
Record ID:4880
Source:Kate Flint
Editor:n/a
Title:The Woman Reader: 1837-1914
Place of Publication:Oxford
Date of Publication:1993
Vol:n/a
Page:246
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Kate Flint, The Woman Reader: 1837-1914, (Oxford, 1993), p. 246, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=4880, accessed: 23 April 2024
Additional Comments:
Quotation from Viscountess Rhondda, This Was My World (1933) 127.
