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Record 11880

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'January 2...What I chiefly admire in Jane Austen is that what she promises, she performs, i.e. if Sir T. is to arrive, we have his arrival at length, and it's excellent and exceeds our expectations. This is rare; it is also my very weakest point. Easy to see why...'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: 2 Jan 1922
Country: unknown
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

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: Writer
Religion: unknown
Country of origin: New Zealand
Country of experience: unknown
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Jane Austen
Title: Mansfield Park
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 11880  
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: 229
  Additional comments: Journal entry for 2 January 1922

Citation: Katherine Mansfield, J. Middleton Murry (ed.), Journal of Katherine Mansfield (Hamburg, Paris, Bologna, 1935), p. 229, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=11880, accessed: 18 April 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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