Evidence: | Transcript of interview: 'I don’t think there was anything that I wasn’t allowed to read. It was only when I went to school to boarding school and all my friends were reading Gone with the Wind, and my mother decided she would rather I didn’t read Gone with the Wind because of a very racy chapter where Melanie gives birth to a baby and she didn’t think that was suitable for me. I was thirteen or fourteen and I didn’t read it but I did read Vicky Baum’s Hotel Berlin which had a much worse scene where a woman gave birth in a rowing boat… I can’t think of anything that was actually banned at all. I read lots and lots of my father’s books and this was a book that I loved - Palgrave’s Golden Treasury [shows book]. My mother gave me this [shows book]. This is the one I learned to read on. This is the Water Babies. I remember sitting up in bed reading Mrs Be Done By As You Did and shouting out “I can read, I can read”! I was six. I didn’t learn to read until quite late.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 4 Sep 1933 and 4 Sep 1934 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Darlington | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Hilary Spalding |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 4 Sep 1927 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | child |
Religion: | Church of England |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Charles Kingsley |
Title: | The Water Babies |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 26717 | |
Source - | Manuscript | Other |
Author: | Transcript of interview with Mrs Hilary Adams, aged 81 (2008) carried out by RED research fellow. For further information and permission to quote this material, contact the Reading Experience Database (http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/contacts.php), |
Citation: | Transcript of interview with Mrs Hilary Adams, aged 81 (2008) carried out by RED research fellow. For further information and permission to quote this material, contact the Reading Experience Database (http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/contacts.php), http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=26717, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
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