Record Number: 20064

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

' "Junior," she said to him, "you reeely must look. You remember Mrs Furnivall said that the part between Dieppy and Purris was vurry vurry interesting." Junior merely grunted and went on reading "Time". And I, pretending to read Charles Lamb, wondered how a woman of over forty could still suppose Dieppe was called Dieppy.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 21 Nov 1886 and 30 Aug 1935

Country:

France

Time

n/a

Place:

other location: 0n a train from Dieppe

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:

anon [a boy]

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Unknown/NA

Occupation:

unknown

Religion:

unknown

Country of Origin:

American

Country of Experience:

France

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

Time

Genre:

Miscellany / Anthology

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

20064

Source:

Print

Author:

Harold Nicolson

Editor:

Nigel Nicolson

Title:

Vita and Harold

Place of Publication:

Great Britain

Date of Publication:

1992

Vol:

n/a

Page:

275

Additional Comments:

Quotation taken from a letter dated 30 August 1935, written at the Ritz Hotel, Paris, by Harold Nicolson to Vita Sackville-West.

Citation:

Harold Nicolson, Nigel Nicolson (ed.), Vita and Harold (Great Britain, 1992), p. 275, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=20064, accessed: 26 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

In the first sentence of the letter Harold says that he was on a train from Dieppe in a compartment with three Americans, a father, mother and son (Junior).