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Record Number: 19728


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I love Emily and am too much afraid of hurting her. Her book ['The Tigron' - unpublished] is so very personal to her. she seems to wants us and the world to judge it, not as a thing in itself but "think what this woman must have been through to write it..." I love a great deal of the book but I am not happy about it as a whole.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Until: 28 Sep 1936

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: London

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:

Antonia White

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:

England

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

christened Eirene Botting



Text Being Read:

Author:

Emily Coleman

Title:

Tigron, The

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Unknown

Publication Details

unpublished

Provenance

read in situ
presumably shown by EC


Source Information:

Record ID:

19728

Source:

Print

Author:

Antonia White

Editor:

Susan Chitty

Title:

Antonia White. Diaries 1926-1957

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1991

Vol:

I

Page:

78

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Antonia White, Susan Chitty (ed.), Antonia White. Diaries 1926-1957 (London, 1991), I, p. 78, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=19728, accessed: 25 April 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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