Record Number: 33057

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

‘Our work and routine is still the same as ever. We are like the fielder who is put at long leg when a good batsman is at the wicket: not because the batsman will ever hit the ball there, but because, if the fielder in question were to be removed, he would. I have finished Horace Blake. It is a great pity that the authoress did not spend more time on it, for except in one or two chapters … the style is hardly equal to the theme. I found the book intensely interesting …Thanks also for the books. There are now enough to keep our Company Mess going for some time, as time for reading is nearly as limited as time for writing—but by no means quite as much so, because one is often free from duty but in a state in which output is an effort but absorption easy and delightful.’

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Aug 1915 and 24 Aug 1915

Country:

Belgium

Time

daytime

Place:

city: Ploegsteert
county: Hainault
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:

Charles Hamilton Sorley

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:

Belgium

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Josephine Mary Ward

Title:

Horace Blake

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

33057

Source:

Print

Author:

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:

251-2

Additional Comments:

To Mrs Sorley 24 August 1915. Sorley was probably at Ploegsteert, near Ypres

Citation:

Charles Hamilton Sorley, Jean Moorcroft Wilson (ed.), The Collected Letters of Charles Hamilton Sorley, (London, 1990), p. 251-2, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33057, accessed: 26 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

None