Evidence: | 'We reached his room about eleven. To do what? Not a blessed thing but to sit before a fire and talk and read again. He read me extracts from a book by Mr. Gilbert Frankau and proved to me what I could not have believed, that Mr. Frankau is a man of real high spirits which frequently almost achieve wit and humour.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1932 and 22 Jun 1932 | ||||||||||
Country: | United Kingdom | ||||||||||
Time: | night: 11 pm-12 am | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Listener: | Cyril Lionel Robert James |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 4 Jan 1901 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Writer |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | Trinidad |
Country of experience: | United Kingdom |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Gilbert Frankau |
Title: | n/a |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 29103 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Cyril Lionel Robert James | |
Editor: | Nicholas Laughlin | |
Title: | Letters from London | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 2003 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 50-51 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Cyril Lionel Robert James, Nicholas Laughlin (ed.), Letters from London (Oxford, 2003), p. 50-51, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=29103, accessed: 19 April 2024 |
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