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Record Number: 34082


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Next morning. My Ruskin is better than ever. I will have him bound in Oxford, or will bind him myself. It gives a most masterly exposition of the meaning and method of Gothic, and he simply smashes the Renaissance styles. No wonder they are going out of fashion after this book. Father will devour it with avidity, and start for Venice next week'.

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

27 Aug 1906

Country:

France

Time

morning

Place:

city: Dinard

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:

Thomas Edward Lawrence

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

16 Aug 1888

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Student

Religion:

Church of England

Country of Origin:

Wales

Country of Experience:

France

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

John Ruskin

Title:

The Stones of Venice

Genre:

Arts / architecture

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

34082

Source:

Print

Author:

T. E. Lawrence

Editor:

M. R. Lawrence

Title:

Home Letters of T. E. Lawrence and His Brothers

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

1954

Vol:

n/a

Page:

35

Additional Comments:

'Letter from T. E. Lawrence [signed Ned] to his Mother, Dinard, Sunday, 26th August, 1906'. However, note 'Next morning' (i.e. Monday, 27th August, 1906) before Lawrence's reference to Ruskin.

Citation:

T. E. Lawrence, M. R. Lawrence (ed.), Home Letters of T. E. Lawrence and His Brothers, (Oxford, 1954), n/a, p. 35, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=34082, accessed: 26 April 2024


Additional Comments:

citation for section 3:4 'T. E. Lawrence studies'. accessed 5 February 2016.

   
   
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