Evidence: | ' "When all is done human life is at its greatest and best but a little froward [sic] child to be played with, and humoured a little, to keep it quiet until it falls asleep, and then the care is over" (Temple)
That's the sort of strain - not for what it says and means, but for the "lilt" of it - that sets me writing.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Feb 1914 and 29 Feb 1914 | ||||||||||
Country: | France | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Paris | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Katherine Mansfield |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 14 Oct 1888 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Novelist and Critic |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | New Zealand |
Country of experience: | France |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | William Temple |
Title: | Miscellanea |
Genre: | Essays / Criticism, Miscellany / Anthology |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 3807 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Katherine Mansfield | |
Editor: | J Middleton Murry | |
Title: | Journal of Katherine Mansfield | |
Place of Publication: | Hamburg Paris Bologna | |
Date of Publication: | 1935 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 22 | |
Additional comments: | diary entry dated 1914 - the editor [Murry] gives date as February 1914 and place as Paris. |
Citation: | Katherine Mansfield, J Middleton Murry (ed.), Journal of Katherine Mansfield (Hamburg Paris Bologna, 1935), p. 22, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3807, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
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