Evidence: | 'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my father", he wrote later: "our house contained not only the principal works of most main English writers in some form or other (admittedly there were exceptions, like Dickens), but also nearly-complete collections of authors my father favoured - Hardy, Bennett, Wilde, Butler and Shaw, and later on Lawrence, Huxley and Katherine Mansfield".' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: 31 Dec 1937 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Coventry | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Sydney Larkin |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 25 Apr 1884 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | accountant |
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: | Katherine Mansfield |
Title: | [unknown] |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 20231 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Andrew Motion | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Philip Larkin. A Writer's Life | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1993 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 27 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Andrew Motion, Philip Larkin. A Writer's Life (London, 1993), p. 27, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20231, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
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