Record Number: 33046
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
‘We are billeted in a town of single-line tramways and mean streets: four-foot square vegetable gardens, where plaintive cabbages wither: cobbles, tenements and cats that walk on tiles … Thanks for the "Sunday Times" … the political crisis is a welcome change from the war—for the reader: perhaps not for the country.’
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Jun 1915 and 11 Jun 1915
Country:France
Timen/a
Place:other location: unpsecified billet
Type of Experience(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:First Lieutenant, 7th Suffolk Regiment
Religion:Agnostic
Country of Origin:Scotland
Country of Experience:France
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Sunday Times
Genre:Politics, Ephemera
Form of Text:Print: Newspaper
Publication Details1915
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:33046
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:226
Additional Comments:
Letter [to Prof. Sorley], 11 June 1915, Northern France/Belgian border
Citation:
Charles Hamilton Sorley, Jean Moorcroft Wilson (ed.), The Collected Letters of Charles Hamilton Sorley, (London, 1990), p. 226, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33046, accessed: 26 September 2024
Additional Comments:
None