Evidence: | 'The clerk who cashes my cheques at the bank is quite a bright, intelligent-looking boy. To-day I had a copy of [italics] Bouvard et Pecuchet [end italics]. He looked at it with curiosity then said "I expect you think I'm rude, looking like that. But I used to read a lot of those sorts of books once" "What sort of books?" "Oh, yellow books like that. I picked up a lot in a booksellers. But mine were much bigger than that" "What were they?" "Oh I don't remember their names or what they were about" "Do you remember the authors?" "Can't say I do. I seem to remember one was some sort of a Japanese story" "And they were in French?" "Oh yes, in French of course".' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: 21 Jul 1937 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | anon |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | bank clerk |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | clerk in Antonia White's bank |
Author: | [unknown] |
Title: | [French novels] |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | in French |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 19738 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Antonia White | |
Editor: | Susan Chitty | |
Title: | Antonia White. Diaries 1926-1957 | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1991 | |
Vol: | I | |
Page: | 97 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Antonia White, Susan Chitty (ed.), Antonia White. Diaries 1926-1957 (London, 1991), I, p. 97, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19738, accessed: 20 April 2024 |
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