Evidence: | 'on his eighth birthday, 27 February 1920, an ox-cart drew up outside Everleas Lodge with a present for him - a huge parcel of books. His father had bought him a complete set of Dickens which had belonged to a recently expired tea-planter. Durrell claimed later that he never got beyond the Pickwick Papers (sometimes he said that he got through about ten of them), but Dickens gave him a vision of merrie England... supplemented later by reading Thackeray and R.S. Surtees. In Surtees' convivial tales of the hunting, shooting, sporting Mr Jorrocks and his pursuitful adventures, there was something ruddy, jolly and rumbustious, which appealed to the perky youngster'. |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 27 Feb 1920 and 31 Dec 1930 | ||||||||||
Country: | India | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Darjeeling specific address: Jesuit College of St Joseph at North Point |
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Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Lawrence Durrell |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 27 Feb 1912 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | later writer; engineer's son |
Religion: | unknown |
Country of origin: | Britain / India (Parents English and Irish but Indian born) |
Country of experience: | India |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Robert Smith Surtees |
Title: | [probably] Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 8869 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Gordon Bowker | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Through the Dark Labyrinth: A Biography of Lawrence Durrell | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1996 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 13 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Gordon Bowker, Through the Dark Labyrinth: A Biography of Lawrence Durrell (London, 1996), p. 13, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=8869, accessed: 30 November 2023 |
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