Record Number: 12476

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'26th February, Saturday. Finally, succumbing to a morbid desire to get away from people I went off ?home? and read till dinner time. Muggridge having lent me a few numbers of ?Le Sourire?, I went steadily through the lot, with, I?m sure, typically British enjoyment of Gallic humour. I suppose I shall shake off this feeling of ?surreptitiousness? of ?shamefacedness?. I hope so, it?s so damnably idiotic and smug'.

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

26 Feb 1927

Country:

France

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Paris

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Gerald Moore

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

16 Jun 1903

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Coffee then Cocoa broker, working for Unilever - United Africa Company

Religion:

none

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

France

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

Le Sourire

Genre:

erotica

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

borrowed (private library)

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Source Information:

Record ID:

12476

Source:

Manuscript

Author:

Gerald Moore

Title:

MS Diary 1927

Location:

Private Collection

Call No:

MS Diary 1927

Page/Folio:

n/a

Citation:

Gerald Moore, MS Diary 1927 Private Collection, p. MS Diary 1927, p. n/a, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=12476, accessed: 26 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

This material Copyright Andrew Neill Vanson Moore, and Shirley Frances Gould-Smith.