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Record Number: 20062


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'"Face" is one of his favourite books; so there. He simply loves it. Also your book on your father.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1932 and 31 Jan 1933

Country:

unknown

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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:

Harry Grant

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Scholar/philosopher

Religion:

unknown

Country of Origin:

unknown

Country of Experience:

unknown

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Harold Nicolson

Title:

Public Faces

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

1932

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

20062

Source:

Print

Author:

Vita Sackville-West

Editor:

Nigel Nicolson

Title:

Vita and Harold

Place of Publication:

Great Britain

Date of Publication:

1992

Vol:

n/a

Page:

236

Additional Comments:

Quotation taken from a letter dated 31 January 1933 written by Vita Sackville-West to Harold Nicolson.

Citation:

Vita Sackville-West, Nigel Nicolson (ed.), Vita and Harold, (Great Britain, 1992), p. 236, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=20062, accessed: 29 March 2024


Additional Comments:

Vita wrote the letter from the Hotel General Brock, Niagara Falls, Canada and names the reader as Dr Harry Grant, aged 73, "half scholar, half philosopher, with a real passion for Niagara". The editor notes in a footnote that "Face" is Harold's novel "Public Faces".

   
   
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