Record Number: 5490
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Rupert Brooke to Jacques Raverat, April 1909: "'I have done no 'work' for ages: and my tripos is in a few weeks ... Ths holidays I fled from my family for long ... in a hut by a waterfall on Dartmoor, a strange fat Johnian and I 'worked' for three weeks. He read -- oh! Aristotle, I think! And I read the Minority Report of the Poor Law Commission; and books on Metre (I'm a poet, you know!); and Shakespere! It was a great time.'"
Century:1900-1945
Date:1909
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:county: Devon
other location: Dartmoor
(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:1887
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Student/Writer
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:n/a
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Minority Report of the Poor Law Commission
Genre:Social Science, Politics
Form of Text:Print: Unknown
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:5490
Source:H. J. Jackson
Editor:n/a
Title:Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books
Place of Publication:New Haven
Date of Publication:2001
Vol:n/a
Page:119
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
H. J. Jackson, Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books, (New Haven, 2001), p. 119, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=5490, accessed: 27 September 2024
Additional Comments:
Quotation from Rupert Brooke, Letters, ed. Geoffrey Keynes (London, 1968) 163.