Record Number: 33028
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Here I have been reading any amount of rubbish: among them (the rubbishes) two quite admirable shockers by John (Prester) Buchan: THE POWERHOUSE and THE THIRTY NINE STEPS. Both cheap editions by Blackwood and excellent fun. I wish I could write shockers. I worship them. Then a very clever sevenpenny (Heinemann) The Divine Fire by May Sinclair, which might have been excellent if people didn't TALK so much. I hate people to say the same thing twice over ... By this mail I shall send you the first half of MARCHING ON TANGA ...'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 18 Aug 1916 and 30 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:The Thirty Nine Steps
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsEdinburgh: Blackwood, 1915
Provenanceread in situ
Source Information:
Record ID:33028
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:75-6
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. 75-6, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33028, accessed: 22 November 2024
Additional Comments:
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