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Record Number: 3820


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'My sticks of rhubarb were wrapped up in a copy of the "Star" containing Lloyd George's last, more than eloquent speech. As I snipped up the rhubarb my eye fell, was fixed and fastened on, that sentence wherein he tells us that we have grasped our niblick and struck out for the open course.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 21 Aug 1917 and 30 Nov 1917

Country:

England

Time

daytime

Place:

city: Chelsea
specific address: 141A Church St

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:

Katherine Mansfield

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

14 Oct 1888

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Novelist and Critic

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

New Zealand

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Lloyd George

Title:

n/a

Genre:

Politics, Speech about the war

Form of Text:

Print: Newspaper

Publication Details

The Star

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

3820

Source:

Print

Author:

Katherine Mansfield

Editor:

J Middleton Murry

Title:

Journal of Katherine Mansfield

Place of Publication:

Hamburg Paris Bologna

Date of Publication:

1935

Vol:

n/a

Page:

89

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Katherine Mansfield, J Middleton Murry (ed.), Journal of Katherine Mansfield (Hamburg Paris Bologna, 1935), p. 89, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=3820, accessed: 29 March 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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