Record Number: 33544

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Off parade there was little enough to do. La Thieuloye was a desolate hole, a mere hamlet with hardly a shop for miles ... Our barn was a fine roomy one and we were quite comfortable there ... leaving our rifles and bulkier equipment in our places in the barn, we pitched a sort of camp in a field or orchard at the back of the barn and mainly lived out there ... the Bachelor's Debating Society continued to be in very good form and our time off parade was a jolly one. "G.R." [unidentified] was at this time supplying us with reading matter in the shape of Sheffield Telegraph threepenny novelettes, some of which caused considerable hilarity. Billy was much amused, in his perusal of one, to find the following brilliant epigram put in the mouth of one of the characters: "Misogyny covers a multitude of past indiscretions". As "G.R." had been giving vent to certain anti-feminist sentiments lately it pleased Billy to apply this saying to him and we pulled his leg by inventing a fairly lurid, Don Juan-ish past for our friend.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Aug 1916 and 14 Aug 1916

Country:

France

Time

evening

Place:

city: La Thieuloye
county
specific address
other location

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:

Geoffrey Ratcliff Husbands

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

31 Oct 1896

Socio-Economic Group:

Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder

Occupation:

Lance-Corporal, 16th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters

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:

[Anon] [Anon]

Title:

[unknown]

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Newspaper

Publication Details

syndicated in the Sheffield Telegraph

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

33544

Source:

Print

Author:

Geoffrey Husbands

Editor:

J. M. Bourne

Title:

Joffrey's War: A Sherwood Forester in the Great War

Place of Publication:

Nottingham

Date of Publication:

2011

Vol:

n/a

Page:

308-9

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Geoffrey Husbands, J. M. Bourne (ed.), Joffrey's War: A Sherwood Forester in the Great War, (Nottingham, 2011), p. 308-9, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33544, accessed: 19 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

None