Record Number: 32924
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
‘Please O please try and get last Sunday’s "Observer" (June 12th or thereabouts). The leading article is a perfect exhibition of pusillanimous twaddling and a kind of sneaking shamefaced hope the war will not last 4 years after all and might be worked out on blackboard by fainthearted blitherers.’
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 12 Jun 1916 and 21 Jun 1916
Country:France
Timen/a
Place:city: Fauquissart-Laventie
county: Pas-de-Calais
other location: trenches
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:28 Aug 1890
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Private, Gloucestershire Regiment
Religion:Christian (Anglican)
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:France
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:The Observer
Genre:Politics, Ephemera
Form of Text:Print: Newspaper
Publication Details11 June 1916
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:32924
Source:Ivor Gurney
Editor:R. K. R. Thornton
Title:Ivor Gurney: Collected Letters
Place of Publication:Manchester
Date of Publication:1991
Vol:n/a
Page:96
Additional Comments:
Letter to Herbert Howells 21 June 1916, from the trenches at Fauquissart-Laventie.
Citation:
Ivor Gurney, R. K. R. Thornton (ed.), Ivor Gurney: Collected Letters, (Manchester, 1991), p. 96, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=32924, accessed: 27 September 2024
Additional Comments:
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