| Evidence: | ' "Junior," she said to him, "you reeely must look. You remember Mrs Furnivall said that the part between Dieppy and Purris was vurry vurry interesting." Junior merely grunted and went on reading "Time". And I, pretending to read Charles Lamb, wondered how a woman of over forty could still suppose Dieppe was called Dieppy.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 21 Nov 1886 and 30 Aug 1935 | ||||||||||
| Country: | France | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | other location: 0n a train from Dieppe | ||||||||||
| Type of Experience (Reader): |
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| Type of Experience (Listener): |
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| Reader: | anon [a boy] |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Unknown/NA |
| Occupation: | unknown |
| Religion: | unknown |
| Country of origin: | American |
| Country of experience: | France |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | |
| Title: | Time |
| Genre: | Miscellany / Anthology |
| Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 20064 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Harold Nicolson | |
| Editor: | Nigel Nicolson | |
| Title: | Vita and Harold | |
| Place of Publication: | Great Britain | |
| Date of Publication: | 1992 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 275 | |
| Additional comments: | Quotation taken from a letter dated 30 August 1935, written at the Ritz Hotel, Paris, by Harold Nicolson to Vita Sackville-West. |
| Citation: | Harold Nicolson, Nigel Nicolson (ed.), Vita and Harold (Great Britain, 1992), p. 275, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20064, accessed: 27 April 2024 | |
| In the first sentence of the letter Harold says that he was on a train from Dieppe in a compartment with three Americans, a father, mother and son (Junior). |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)