Record Number: 33026
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Here one is amazingly comfortable: a beautiful house lent by two young bachelors, Finch-Hatton and Pixley: lovely Japanese hangings and enamel ware, Persian carpets, and books — such incongruous books: a lot of Wilde and Beardsley, think of choice bound editions of Sebastian Melmoth and Dorian Grey after four months of hard campaigning. A piano and pianola, a tropical garden full of roses.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:18 Aug 1916
Country:Kenya
Timedaytime
Place:city: Nairobi
specific address: Lady Colville's Nursing Home
(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:29 Jun 1884
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Lieutenant, Royal Army Medical Corps
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:Kenya
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Sebastian Melmoth
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:33026
Source:n/a
Editor:Jacques Leclaire
Title:Tanga Letters to Jessie: Written by Francis Brett Young to His Wife from German East Africa, 1916-1917
Place of Publication:Halesowen
Date of Publication:2005
Vol:n/a
Page:72
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Jacques Leclaire (ed.), Tanga Letters to Jessie: Written by Francis Brett Young to His Wife from German East Africa, 1916-1917, (Halesowen, 2005), p. 72, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33026, accessed: 17 August 2024
Additional Comments:
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