Record Number: 19737
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'The clerk who cashes my cheques at the bank is quite a bright, intelligent-looking boy. To-day I had a copy of [italics] Bouvard et Pecuchet [end italics]. He looked at it with curiosity then said "I expect you think I'm rude, looking like that. But I used to read a lot of those sorts of books once" "What sort of books?" "Oh, yellow books like that. I picked up a lot in a booksellers. But mine were much bigger than that" "What were they?" "Oh I don't remember their names or what they were about" "Do you remember the authors?" "Can't say I do. I seem to remember one was some sort of a Japanese story" "And they were in French?" "Oh yes, in French of course".'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Until: 21 Jul 1937
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: London
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:31 Mar 1899
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:writer
Religion:[lapsed] Catholic
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
born Eirene Botting
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Bouvard et Pecuchet
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsin French
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:19737
Source:Antonia White
Editor:Susan Chitty
Title:Antonia White. Diaries 1926-1957
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1991
Vol:I
Page:97
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
Antonia White, Susan Chitty (ed.), Antonia White. Diaries 1926-1957, (London, 1991), I, p. 97, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19737, accessed: 04 October 2024
Additional Comments:
None
