Evidence: | 'Now about my reading, -- I have L?on Daudet?s ?Clemenceau?. The book is more interesting to me for the light it throws on L?on Daudet than on its subject ? a person (Clemenceau) that I find thoroughly repugnant. I suppose I ought to read Ren? Benjamin?s ?life?, as I heard him lecture on it at Bordeaux, but certainly I do not find the ?Tiger? a pleasant person in any way at all. But I find Daudet rather attractive, and indeed surprisingly reasonable in his criticism of people whose politics must have been the opposite of his own. The exception is Briand, but I cannot imagine any human being so disgusting as the person described by Daudet under that name ? it is impossible. Malvy and Caillaux also get it hot. But there are descriptions of the Goncourt group which I liked very much, and altogether I enjoyed the ?Frenchness? of the writer.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1941 and 31 Jan 1941 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Birkenhead | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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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 |
Author: | Leon Daudet |
Title: | Clemenceau |
Genre: | Biography |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 14142 | |
Source - | Manuscript | |
Author: | Winifred Agnes Moore [nee Booth] | |
Title: | MS Letters from Winifred Moore, 1928-1941 | |
Location: | private collection | |
Call no: | January 1941 | |
Page/folio: | n/a |
Citation: | Winifred Agnes Moore [nee Booth], MS Letters from Winifred Moore, 1928-1941 private collection, p. January 1941, p. n/a, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=14142, accessed: 24 April 2024 |
This material copyright Shirley Gould Smith and Andrew Neill Vanson Moore. |
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