Evidence: | 'I collected my thoughts. My ideas about prison came from American films, and I envisaged cells of which one side would be made of iron bars, all giving on to a landing, like a zoo [...] I tried to read the book I had brought with me, a pocket edition of Lytton Strachey's "Elizabeth and Essex". It was not an ideal choice but I had snatched it up as I left my room.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1940 and 31 Dec 1940 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | afternoon evening |
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Place: | city: London specific address: Royal Holloway Women's Prison |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Diana Mosley |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 17 Jun 1910 |
Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
Occupation: | Prominent Fascist and society beauty |
Religion: | Church of England |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Lytton Strachey |
Title: | Elizabeth and Essex |
Genre: | Fiction, History |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 16875 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Jenny Hartley | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Hearts Undefeated: Women's Writing of the Second World War | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1999 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 153 | |
Additional comments: | From Diana Mosley, "A Life of Contrasts" (1977) |
Citation: | Jenny Hartley, Hearts Undefeated: Women's Writing of the Second World War (London, 1999), p. 153, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=16875, accessed: 28 September 2023 |
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