Evidence: | For some reason we were never confronted with the famous animal books in childhood -neither "The Wind in the Willows" nor "Winne-the-Pooh", nor any Beatrix Potter -and when I did meet the works of Kenneth Grahame and A.A. Milne, at the age of twelve or thirteen, I was past them to the extent that I read from a height, like a connoisseur, with no involvement, accepting with sophistication rather than naivety the clothing, the speecg and the human motives of the animals. |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1931 and 31 Dec 1932 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Exmouth | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Patricia Beer |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 4 Nov 1919 |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | daughter of railway clerk |
Religion: | Plymouth Brethren |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Kenneth Grahame |
Title: | The Wind in the Willows |
Genre: | Fiction, Children's Lit |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 2293 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Patricia Beer | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Mrs Beer's House | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1968 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 102 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Patricia Beer, Mrs Beer's House (London, 1968), p. 102, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=2293, accessed: 04 December 2023 |
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