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Record 3831

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Jinne Moore was awfully good at elocution. Was she better than I? I could make the girls cry when I read Dickens in the sewing class, and she couldn't.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1 Sep 1892 and 1 Oct 1906
Country: New Zealand
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:Katherine Mansfield
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 14 Oct 1888
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Novelist and Critic
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: New Zealand
Country of experience: New Zealand
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
The other members of Katherine Beauchamp's sewing class.
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Charles Dickens
Title: n/a
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 3831  
Source - Print  
  Author: Katherine Mansfield
  Editor: J Middleton Murry
  Title: Journal of Katherine Mansfield
  Place of Publication: Hamburg Paris Bologna
  Date of Publication: 1935
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 77
  Additional comments: diary entry dated March 1916

Citation: Katherine Mansfield, J Middleton Murry (ed.), Journal of Katherine Mansfield (Hamburg Paris Bologna, 1935), p. 77, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3831, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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