| Evidence: | [a teacher at St Edmunds Scool, Canterbury] 'encouraged him by supplying him regularly with the literary pages of Le Figaro. From then on Durrell became hooked on French Literature'. |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1926 and 31 Dec 1927 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Canterbury specific address: St Edmund's School |
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| Reader: | Lawrence Durrell |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 27 Feb 1912 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | later writer; engineer's son |
| Religion: | unknown |
| Country of origin: | Britain / India (Parents English and Irish but Indian born) |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | [n/a] |
| Title: | Le Figaro |
| Genre: | Essays / Criticism |
| Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | borrowed (other) borrowed from school teacher |
| Record ID: | 8875 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Gordon Bowker | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Through the Dark Labyrinth: A Biography of Lawrence Durrell | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1996 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 31 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Gordon Bowker, Through the Dark Labyrinth: A Biography of Lawrence Durrell (London, 1996), p. 31, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=8875, accessed: 25 April 2024 | |
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