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Record Number: 32333


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Did you read Lloyd George's speech the other day introducing the remark about the German potato bread — "I fear that potato bread more than all Von Kluck's strategy". Although, as you have seen, I don't often read the newspapers, I was glad when Kirk pointed that out to me. Most of the people one hears rather laugh at that bread "wheeze", but I rather think Lloyd George's is the wiser view.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

1 Mar 1915

Country:

England

Time

morning

Place:

Great Bookham
Surrey
'Gastons'

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Clive Staples Lewis

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

29 Nov 1898

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Student

Religion:

Church of England

Country of Origin:

Northern Ireland

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

Mr Kirkpatrick ('Kirk pointed that out to me'), possibly Mrs Kirkpatrick and other members of the household


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

[n/a] [n/a]

Title:

The Times

Genre:

Politics, Transcript of the whole or part of a speech

Form of Text:

Print: Newspaper

Publication Details

The Times (1 March 1915), p. 10

Provenance

owned
owned by the Kirkpatrick household, not by Lewis himself


Source Information:

Record ID:

32333

Source:

Print

Author:

C. S. Lewis

Editor:

Walter Hooper

Title:

C. S. Lewis Collected Letters

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

2000

Vol:

1

Page:

112

Additional Comments:

From a letter to his father, [7 March 1915]

Citation:

C. S. Lewis, Walter Hooper (ed.), C. S. Lewis Collected Letters, (London, 2000), 1, p. 112, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=32333, accessed: 20 April 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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