Record Number: 25129
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'By the way! 'Jimmy & the Desperate Woman' is fucking good! 'After he had given his lecture (it was on Men in Books and Men in Life: naturally men in books came first)...' Lawrence so good I daren't really read him.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Jan 1924 and 23 Jun 1941
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:Male
Date of Birth:9 Aug 1922
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Student, Librarian, Poet
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:Jimmy and The Desperate Woman, in The Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsJimmy and The Desperate Woman (1924), in The Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories (1928)
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:25129
Source:Philip Larkin
Editor:Anthony Thwaite
Title:Selected Letters of Philip Larkin 1940-1985
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1992
Vol:n/a
Page:17
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Philip Larkin, Anthony Thwaite (ed.), Selected Letters of Philip Larkin 1940-1985, (London, 1992), p. 17, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=25129, accessed: 09 May 2025
Additional Comments:
This letter is to J.B Sutton, dated 23 June 1941.