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...' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: 4 Jan 1934 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Antonia White |
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, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | christened Eirene Botting |
Author: | Jane Welsh |
Title: | [letters to Carlyle] |
Genre: | Letters |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 19698 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | 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/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19698, accessed: 04 May 2024 |
Also letters from Carlyle to Jane |
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