Record Number: 19723
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Every day I become more aware of the extraordinary interpenetration of people's lives. I think of the share Emily had in Djuna's book ['Nightwood'], of the share Emily will have in mine if I can write it, of the small share I have in hers and may have in Siepmann's, of the way I saw something in Tom's drowning story ['I have been Drowned'] of which he was unaware and which Emily brought to flower so that now he has written a quite extraordinary story, beyond anything he has done before and which gave me the same feeling of strangeness, delight, almost awe that Emily's two last poems, "Melville" and "The Creation" gave me'.
Century:1900-1945
Date:Until: 12 May 1936
Country:Spain or England
Timen/a
Place:n/a
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:Female
Date of Birth:31 Mar 1899
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:writer
Religion:[lapsed] Catholic
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:Spain or England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
christened Eirene Botting
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:[poems entitled 'Melville' and 'The Creation']
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Unknown
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:19723
Source:Antonia White
Editor:Susan Chitty
Title:Antonia White. Diaries 1926-1957
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1991
Vol:I
Page:73
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
Antonia White, Susan Chitty (ed.), Antonia White. Diaries 1926-1957 (London, 1991), I, p. 73, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=19723, accessed: 18 April 2024
Additional Comments:
None
