Record Number: 2733
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Daughter of the editor father, [Rose Macaulay] was given a copy of the complete works of Tennyson when she was eight and remembers knowing it "practically by heart"... Shelley, too, she found "an intoxicant". A coplete works of Shelley joined her Tennyson a year later, starting a fascination with the poet which she remembers in a letter to Gilbert Murray in January 1945: "I, like you, read Shelley's Prometheus very young... I was entirely carried away by it; as I was, indeed, by all Shelley... Of course, I didn't understand all Prometheus; but enough to be fascinated".'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Between 1 Jan 1889 and 31 Dec 1890
Country:Italy
Timen/a
Place:city: village of Varazze
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:Child (0-17)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:1881
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:later a writer
Religion:Anglican
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:Italy
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:n/a
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:2733
Source:Alice Crawford
Editor:n/a
Title:Paradise Pursued: The Novels of Rose Macaulay
Place of Publication:Madison
Date of Publication:1995
Vol:n/a
Page:160-61
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Alice Crawford, Paradise Pursued: The Novels of Rose Macaulay, (Madison, 1995), p. 160-61, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=2733, accessed: 06 October 2024
Additional Comments:
See letter ERM16[52] in papers of Emilie Rose MacAulay at Trinity College, Cambridge
