Record Number: 7099

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

[Sunday, on a bike picnic] 'It began to pour down just as B [unidentified] and I reached a barn... so we stayed there to eat, and curled up on rugs on mouldy straw, and I read "Jerusalem under the High Priests"! Arrived in at 6:30 totally soaked! Maccy [later the cookery writer Jane Grigson] has a tiny book of Shakespeare's Sonnets which I must try and get - they are most lovely and very interesting and soothing.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

20 May 1945

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

specific address: Casterton School, near Kirkby Lonsdale

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:

Hilary Spalding

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

4 Sep 1927

Socio-Economic Group:

Clergy (includes all denominations)

Occupation:

daughter of clergyman, later schoolmistress and Head of English

Religion:

Church of England

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

Mrs Hilary Adams after marriage

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Text Being Read:

Author:

William Shakespeare

Title:

Sonnets

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

borrowed (other)
borrowed from "Maccy", another schoolgirl

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Source Information:

Record ID:

7099

Source:

Manuscript

Author:

Hilary Spalding

Title:

MS Diary 1945

Location:

Private collection of Mrs Hilary Adams

Call No:

n/a

Page/Folio:

n/a

Additional Information:

Diary entry for 20 May 1945

Citation:

Hilary Spalding, MS Diary 1945, Private collection of Mrs Hilary Adams, n/a, n/a, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=7099, accessed: 16 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

None