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Record 14112

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Harold gave me the ?Definitive Edition? of the Week-end Book for Xmas. It has drawings by Rutherston, and will be very precious I understand as a first edition. Will Wood left me a Tauchnitz edition of ?Nigger Heaven? by a coloured writer Carl Van Vechten. ?Nigger Heaven? is Haarlem ? a New York district mostly inhabited by coloured people. One does not like American ?last living? any the better for being black rather than white ? and there is very little else to it, except one or two less mentionable points of biological interest whose significance, if grasped, might shake the complacency of the more stupid whites.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1 Jan 1929 and 31 Jan 1929
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Birkenhead
   
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:Winifred Agnes Moore
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 23 Feb 1877
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Teacher and Labour Councilor
Religion: Quaker
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: nee Booth

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Carl Van Vechten
Title: Nigger Heaven
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: Tauchnitz edition
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 14112  
  Source - Manuscript
  Author: Winifred Agnes Moore [nee Booth]
  Title: MS Letters from Winifred Moore, 1928-1941
  Location: private collection
  Call no: January 1929
  Page/folio: n/a

Citation: Winifred Agnes Moore [nee Booth], MS Letters from Winifred Moore, 1928-1941 private collection, p. January 1929, p. n/a, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=14112, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

This material copyright Shirley Gould Smith and Andrew Neill Vanson Moore.

 

 

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