| Evidence: | 'Down here with my mother I feel that nothing can be so preposterous, so undignified as "love". I have been reading her ludicrous, pathetic, nauseating diary about herself and Oswald Norton. "Cleopatra had a famous wriggle last night. Julia ull-ully". The sexual act is not indecent but almost any verbal description of it is. Interspersed with all this are prayers, recriminations, schoolgirl ravings, a kind of complacent self reproach.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 18 Apr 1938 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Antonia White |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 31 Mar 1899 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | writer |
| Religion: | [lapsed] Catholic |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | christened Eirene Botting |
| Author: | Christine Botting |
| Title: | [diary] |
| Genre: | Autobiog / Diary |
| Form of Text: | Manuscript: Unknown |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | read in situ read at her mother's house |
| Record ID: | 19743 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Antonia White | |
| Editor: | Susan Chitty | |
| Title: | Antonia White. Diaries 1926-1957 | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1991 | |
| Vol: | I | |
| Page: | 126 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Antonia White, Susan Chitty (ed.), Antonia White. Diaries 1926-1957 (London, 1991), I, p. 126, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19743, accessed: 04 December 2023 | |
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