Record Number: 20105

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'And then one day I found a book. It was a book called Emily of New Moon, about a little girl whose father died of consumption – that made a change, to start with - after which she was brought up by strict aunts in an old farmhouse somewhere in Canada. A Canadian story, not an American one; but I barely registered that at the time. What made it so different from other books of its kind I did not know, and I do not really know even now. But for me it was magic. I carried it off and kept it under my pillow or clutched to my bosom at bed-making time, and it seems as though I read it all that summer long, which can scarcely have been the fact; but I think I must have read it through, at first voraciously and then with slow and lingering delight, at least three times on the trot. And it was summer. On fine summer nights the beds remained out on the concrete strip all night, and I used to read, half under the bedclothes to evade Night Nurse’s eagle eye, until the last dregs of the light had drained away [...].'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 14 Dec 1930 and 14 Dec 1934

Country:

England

Time

n/anight

Place:

city: Exeter
specific address: Princess Elizabeth Orthopaedic Hospital
other location: in bed

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:

Rosemary Sutcliff

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

14 Dec 1920

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Military (navy)

Occupation:

Artist/Writer (eventually)

Religion:

unknown

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

L.M. Montgomery

Title:

Emily of New Moon

Genre:

Fiction, History, Children's Lit

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

Found
found in library of children's hospital

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Source Information:

Record ID:

20105

Source:

Print

Author:

Rosemary Sutcliff

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Blue Remembered Hills: A Recollection

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1993 [1983]

Vol:

n/a

Page:

96

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Rosemary Sutcliff, Blue Remembered Hills: A Recollection (London, 1993 [1983]), p. 96, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=20105, accessed: 24 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Dates of reading are approximate.