Evidence: | 'Edith, though a great reader, did not consume all and any poetry as a child; she was kept in regularly on Saturday afternoons at one time because of her refusal to learn by heart Mrs Hemans's "Casabianca" ("The boy stood on the burning deck..."). The reason for her recalcitrance was that "as everybody had left the Burning Deck, and he was doing no conceivable good by remaining there, why in heck didn't he get off it!"' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: 31 Dec 1899 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | afternoon | ||||||||||
Place: | county: Derbyshire specific address: Renishaw Hall |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Edith Sitwell |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 7 Sep 1887 |
Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
Occupation: | later writer |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Felicia Hemans |
Title: | 'Casabianca' |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 18180 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Victoria Glendinning | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Edith Sitwell. A Unicorn Among Lions | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1981 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 29 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Victoria Glendinning, Edith Sitwell. A Unicorn Among Lions (London, 1981), p. 29, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18180, accessed: 19 April 2024 |
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