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Record 25129

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'By the way! 'Jimmy & the Desperate Woman' is fucking good! 'After he had given his lecture (it was on Men in Books and Men in Life: naturally men in books came first)...' Lawrence so good I daren't really read him.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1 Jan 1924 and 23 Jun 1941
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Philip Larkin
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 9 Aug 1922
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Student, Librarian, Poet
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: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: D. H. Lawrence
Title: Jimmy and The Desperate Woman, in The Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: Jimmy and The Desperate Woman (1924), in The Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories (1928)
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 25129  
Source - Print  
  Author: Philip Larkin
  Editor: Anthony Thwaite
  Title: Selected Letters of Philip Larkin 1940-1985
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1992
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 17
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Philip Larkin, Anthony Thwaite (ed.), Selected Letters of Philip Larkin 1940-1985 (London, 1992), p. 17, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=25129, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

This letter is to J.B Sutton, dated 23 June 1941.

 

 

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