Record Number: 33040
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
‘I have started to read again, having read nothing all the closing months of last year. I have discovered a man called D. H. Lawrence who knows the way to write, and I still stick to Hardy: to whom I never managed to convert you … We talk of going out in March. I am positively looking forward to that event, not in the brave British drummer-boy spirit, of course, but as a relief from this boredom … We don’t seem to be winning, do we? It looks like an affair of years.’
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 14 Nov 1914 and 25 Jan 1915
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Cheriton
county: Kent
specific address: Shorncliffe Camp
(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:19 May 1895
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Second Lieutenant, 7th Suffolk Regiment
Religion:Agnostic
Country of Origin:Scotland
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:[unknown]
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:33040
Source:Charles Hamilton Sorley
Editor:Jean Moorcroft Wilson
Title:The Collected Letters of Charles Hamilton Sorley
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1990
Vol:n/a
Page:212
Additional Comments:
Letter to A. E. Hutchinson, Shorncliffe 25 January 1915
Citation:
Charles Hamilton Sorley, Jean Moorcroft Wilson (ed.), The Collected Letters of Charles Hamilton Sorley, (London, 1990), p. 212, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33040, accessed: 30 June 2024
Additional Comments:
Works by Lawrence available by January 1915 were "The White Peacock"(1911), "The Trespasser"(1912) "Sons and Lovers"(1913), "The Prussian Officer and Other Stories" (1914) as well as poetry "Love Poems and others"(1913), and two plays. The evidence tends to imply novels or short stories rather than poetry or plays.
