Evidence: | 'Thursday 1st July
This has been one of those demoralising days when a late rising leaves one unable to make any use of the shortened day. We should have gone to see Dad but left it too late. However, I have finished ?Orphan Island? and so added a rich recollection to my sum of experience. It is a great book. Really Great. The whole idea is inimitably that of the author of ?Told by an Idiot?. Rose Macauley?s chief charm is the delightful sustained humour of her prose. Every word is charmingly quiet and sweet, and yet how devastating the satire and the irony. What a pity. I have to admit to being so hopelessly ?orphan? since she finds so little in them but noise and sentiment.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | 1 Jul 1926 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Liverpool | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Gerald Moore |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 16 Jun 1903 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Coffee then Cocoa broker, working for Unilever - United Africa Company |
Religion: | none |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Rose Macaulay |
Title: | Orphan Island |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 12356 | |
Source - | Manuscript | |
Author: | Gerald Moore | |
Title: | MS Diary 1926 | |
Location: | Private Collection | |
Call no: | MS Diary 1926 | |
Page/folio: | n/a |
Citation: | Gerald Moore, MS Diary 1926 Private Collection, p. MS Diary 1926, p. n/a, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12356, accessed: 20 April 2024 |
This material Copyright Andrew Neill Vanson Moore, and Shirley Frances Gould-Smith. |
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