Record Number: 20230
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my father", he wrote later: "our house contained not only the principal works of most main English writers in some form or other (admittedly there were exceptions, like Dickens), but also nearly-complete collections of authors my father favoured - Hardy, Bennett, Wilde, Butler and Shaw, and later on Lawrence, Huxley and Katherine Mansfield".'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Until: 31 Dec 1937
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Coventry
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:Male
Date of Birth:25 Apr 1884
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:accountant
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:England
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:[unknown]
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:20230
Source:Andrew Motion
Editor:n/a
Title:Philip Larkin. A Writer's Life
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1993
Vol:n/a
Page:27
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Andrew Motion, Philip Larkin. A Writer's Life, (London, 1993), p. 27, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=20230, accessed: 06 October 2024
Additional Comments:
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