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Record 11882

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'January 3...I read "The Tempest". The papers came. I over-read them. Tell the truth. I did no work. In fact I was more idle and hateful than ever..."The Tempest" seems to me astonishing this time. When one reads the same play again, it is never the same play.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: 3 Jan 1922
Country: unknown
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Katherine Mansfield
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 14 Oct 1888
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Writer
Religion: unknown
Country of origin: New Zealand
Country of experience: unknown
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: William Shakespeare
Title: The Tempest
Genre: Drama
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 11882  
Source - Print  
  Author: 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: 229-30
  Additional comments: Journal entry for 3 January 1922

Citation: Katherine Mansfield, J. Middleton Murry (ed.), Journal of Katherine Mansfield (Hamburg, Paris, Bologna, 1935), p. 229-30, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=11882, accessed: 20 April 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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