Record Number: 32924

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

‘Please O please try and get last Sunday’s "Observer" (June 12th or thereabouts). The leading article is a perfect exhibition of pusillanimous twaddling and a kind of sneaking shamefaced hope the war will not last 4 years after all and might be worked out on blackboard by fainthearted blitherers.’

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 12 Jun 1916 and 21 Jun 1916

Country:

France

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Fauquissart-Laventie
county: Pas-de-Calais
other location: trenches

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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Ivor Bertie Gurney

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

28 Aug 1890

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Private, Gloucestershire Regiment

Religion:

Christian (Anglican)

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

France

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

The Observer

Genre:

Politics, Ephemera

Form of Text:

Print: Newspaper

Publication Details

11 June 1916

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

32924

Source:

Print

Author:

Ivor Gurney

Editor:

R. K. R. Thornton

Title:

Ivor Gurney: Collected Letters

Place of Publication:

Manchester

Date of Publication:

1991

Vol:

n/a

Page:

96

Additional Comments:

Letter to Herbert Howells 21 June 1916, from the trenches at Fauquissart-Laventie.

Citation:

Ivor Gurney, R. K. R. Thornton (ed.), Ivor Gurney: Collected Letters, (Manchester, 1991), p. 96, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=32924, accessed: 25 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

None