Record Number: 3807
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
' "When all is done human life is at its greatest and best but a little froward [sic] child to be played with, and humoured a little, to keep it quiet until it falls asleep, and then the care is over" (Temple) That's the sort of strain - not for what it says and means, but for the "lilt" of it - that sets me writing.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Feb 1914 and 29 Feb 1914
Country:France
Timen/a
Place:city: Paris
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:14 Oct 1888
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Novelist and Critic
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:New Zealand
Country of Experience:France
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Miscellanea
Genre:Essays / Criticism, Miscellany / Anthology
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:3807
Source:Katherine Mansfield
Editor:J Middleton Murry
Title:Journal of Katherine Mansfield
Place of Publication:Hamburg Paris Bologna
Date of Publication:1935
Vol:n/a
Page:22
Additional Comments:
diary entry dated 1914 - the editor [Murry] gives date as February 1914 and place as Paris.
Citation:
Katherine Mansfield, J Middleton Murry (ed.), Journal of Katherine Mansfield, (Hamburg Paris Bologna, 1935), p. 22, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=3807, accessed: 25 April 2025
Additional Comments:
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