Evidence: | Throughout our childhood, mother read aloud to us, usually at the kitchen table, but sometimes, as a treat, in the front room and sometimes, on warm summer evenings, in the meadow beyond the garden... The books she chose for these readings were, I now see, startingly bad. Two of her greatest favourites were 'Coming Through the Rye' and 'Freckles'. The first was a tale with a middle-class Victorian background showing true love thwarted by a designing woman... But there was a passage at the end of 'Freckles' which overcame her so that she could not continue... |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1925 and 31 Dec 1935 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Exmouth location in dwelling: at home, in kitchen, front room and garden |
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Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Harriet Beer |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | wife of railway clerk |
Religion: | Plymouth Brethern |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
daughters -Patricia Beer and Sheila Beer |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Gene Stratton-Porter |
Title: | Freckles |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 2211 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Patricia Beer | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Mrs Beer's House | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1968 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 98-99 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Patricia Beer, Mrs Beer's House (London, 1968), p. 98-99, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=2211, accessed: 23 April 2024 |
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