Record Number: 13967
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I try to read always with a very open mind, wide away [awake?] to assimilate all the author's knowledge. I have such a great admiration for authorship. After just finishing Pierre de Coulerain's book, "Au coeur de la Vie" I can't help exclaiming "wonderful woman". I have enjoyed her book so much because nearly all her ideas are mine, the thoughts that she has been able to so well express have often been mine, but mine were inarticulate. That I take it is the whole art of authorship, to be able to put on paper one's thoughts. The question of the quality of the "thought" remains entire so I take it a poor thinker can never be a writer. It is logical therefore to try to learn to think aright.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:1 Dec 1917
Country:France
Timen/a
Place:city: Paris
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:16 Dec 1884
Socio-Economic Group:Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Occupation:lawyer
Religion:Church of England
Country of Origin:Born in Paris, British national
Country of Experience:France
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Au Coeur de la Vie
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:13967
Source:Manuscript
Author:Arthur Vanson
Title:MS Diary 1917
Location:private collection
Call No:MS Diary 1917
Page/Folio:n/a
Citation:Arthur Vanson, MS Diary 1917 private collection, p. MS Diary 1917, p. n/a, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=13967, accessed: 26 April 2024
Additional Comments:
This material Copyright Andrew Neill Vanson Moore, and Shirley Frances Gould-Smith.
