Evidence: | ' ... [The Viscountess Rhondda] recounts the difficulty she had in acquiring ... Havelock Ellis's Psychology of Sex: even her father was not able to go straight to a shop and buy the set of volumes for himself.'
"'One had to produce some kind of signed certificate from the doctor or lawer to the effect that one was a suitable person to read it. To his surprise he could not at first obtain it. I still remember his amused indignation that he was refused a book which his own daughter had already read.'
" ... the Viscountess had been able to obtain it from the Cavendish Bentinck Library, the membership of which was limited to women." |
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Century: | 1850-1899, 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Viscountess Rhondda |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
Occupation: | Aristocrat |
Religion: | unknown |
Country of origin: | unknown |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Havelock Ellis |
Title: | The Psychology of Sex |
Genre: | Social Science, Psychology |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | borrowed (other) Borrowed/read from private members' club library |
Record ID: | 4880 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Kate Flint | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | The Woman Reader: 1837-1914 | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 1993 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 246 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Kate Flint, The Woman Reader: 1837-1914 (Oxford, 1993), p. 246, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4880, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
Quotation from Viscountess Rhondda, This Was My World (1933) 127. |
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