Record Number: 19755

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I have been reading again the notes I made this time last year about Basil. Somehow more truth and less distortion gets into these notebooks than into anything else.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

27 Aug 1938

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

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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

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Antonia White

Title:

[diary notebooks]

Genre:

Autobiog / Diary

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Codex, notebook

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

19755

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:

149

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Antonia White, Susan Chitty (ed.), Antonia White. Diaries 1926-1957 (London, 1991), I, p. 149, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=19755, accessed: 25 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Basil was her ex-lover, Basil Nicholson