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Record Number: 13977


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'The book which I had ordered had arrived and gives me the same exciting feeling when I glance into it - I have told you before how I want you to read ?Dodsworth?, and now you will be able to as I am sending it to you ? I daren?t get too enthusiastic about it in case you don?t like it. ???. I have been reading ?Mutiny on the Bounty?, but it seems tame after the film. ?? . I now have two books to read out of the library, ?Daughter to Philip? by Beatrice Kean Seymour, and ?Jake?, by Naomi Royde-Smith, which I have heard about somewhere, and is I think the story of a musician.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Aug 1936 and 31 Aug 1936

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Lesley Edna Moore

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

6 Mar 1911

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Wife of cocoa merchant

Religion:

Church of England

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

nee Vanson



Text Being Read:

Author:

Sinclair Lewis

Title:

Dodsworth

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

13977

Source:

Manuscript

Author:

Lesley Edna Moore [nee Vanson]

Title:

MS Letter Lesley Moore August 1936

Location:

private collection

Call No:

MS Letter Lesley Moore August 1936

Page/Folio:

n/a

Citation:

Lesley Edna Moore [nee Vanson], MS Letter Lesley Moore August 1936 private collection, p. MS Letter Lesley Moore August 1936, p. n/a, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=13977, accessed: 25 April 2024


Additional Comments:

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

   
   
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