Record Number: 19698
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'The more I go into Jane, the more, in a way, she repels me. The Love-Letters, read for the 3rd time, show [italics] him [end italics] in a far better light. She is maddening with her archness and her flirtations and her sham high-browism and her "wee wee Cicero". But it is interesting to see how awful young girls are.; novelists, except Tolstoy, never se it...'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Until: 4 Jan 1934
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:Female
Date of Birth:31 Mar 1899
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:writer
Religion:Catholic by birth
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
christened Eirene Botting
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:[letters to Carlyle]
Genre:Letters
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:19698
Source:Antonia White
Editor:Susan Chitty
Title:Antonia White. Diaries 1926-1957
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1991
Vol:I
Page:26
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
Antonia White, Susan Chitty (ed.), Antonia White. Diaries 1926-1957 (London, 1991), I, p. 26, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=19698, accessed: 28 March 2024
Additional Comments:
Also letters from Carlyle to Jane