Record Number: 18850
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Maupassant never meant as much to her as Flaubert, or as Proust. She was reading collections of Maupassant's stories in mid-winter at Bowen's Court when she wrote to Virginia Woolf: "I suppose he had sharp sense but really rather a boring mind. You soon get to know his formula, but there is always the fascination: it's like watching someone do the same card trick over and over again. I did feel the fascination so strongly that I wondered if I were getting brutalised myself. There is a particularly preposterous story called 'Yvette'...."'
Century:1900-1945
Date:From: 1 1935
Country:Ireland
Timen/a
Place:county: County Cork
specific address: Bowen's Court
(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:7 Jun 1899
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:writer
Religion:Anglican
Country of Origin:Ireland
Country of Experience:Ireland
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:'Yvette' [and other short stories]
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsin French
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:18850
Source:Victoria Glendinning
Editor:n/a
Title:Elizabeth Bowen: Portrait of a Writer
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1977
Vol:n/a
Page:117
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
Victoria Glendinning, Elizabeth Bowen: Portrait of a Writer (London, 1977), p. 117, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18850, accessed: 02 May 2024
Additional Comments:
None