Record Number: 33512

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Please don't worry about me for one single moment. I'm as safe as houses here & having a very jolly time ... Please thank Elsie very much for the photograph & for the books. Tell her I shall enjoy "Septimus" which I have some slight idea is the Latin for seventh ... I presume that Septimus is not the name of the girl in blue pastel in the front of the book. I shall enjoy the book much better when the heroine is so near that she is touching me.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Feb 1918 and 14 Feb 1918

Country:

France

Time

n/a

Place:

county: Nord

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:

John Lawton

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

18 Dec 1896

Socio-Economic Group:

Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder

Occupation:

Second Lieutenant, Alexandra Princess of Wales' Own The Yorkshire Regiment

Religion:

Church of England

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:

William John Locke

Title:

Septimus

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

33512

Source:

Print

Author:

John Lawton

Editor:

Raymond Lawton

Title:

'In the Pink': The Letters of Lieutenant John Lawton, 1915-19

Place of Publication:

Stoke-on-Trent

Date of Publication:

2003

Vol:

n/a

Page:

125

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

John Lawton, Raymond Lawton (ed.), 'In the Pink': The Letters of Lieutenant John Lawton, 1915-19, (Stoke-on-Trent, 2003), p. 125, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33512, accessed: 18 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

None