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Record 16958

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Some marginal annotation in pencil in English throughout the volume; read January 1925
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1 Jan 1925 and 31 Jan 1925
Country: Italy
Time: n/a
Place: city: Florence
specific address: 'Villa Il Palmerino', Maiano, near Fiesole
   
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:Vernon Lee
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 14 Oct 1856
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: writer
Religion: agnostic
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: Italy
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Beatrice Edgell
Title: Theories of Memory
Genre: Social Science, Science, psychology of memory
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: Oxford: Clarendon, 1924; 1st edition
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 16958  
Source - Print  
  Author: Beatrice Edgell
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Theories of Memory
  Place of Publication: Oxford
  Date of Publication: 1924
  Vol: n/a
  Page: n/a
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Beatrice Edgell, Theories of Memory (Oxford, 1924), http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=16958, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

'Vernon Lee' is the pseudonym of Violet Paget (1856-1935). This volume is housed in the Special Collections of the Harold Acton Library, the British Institute of Florence

 

 

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