Record Number: 34083
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'...and in the little bays I have damaged myself on rocks. I had been reading there on a cliff seat I constructed for about 5 hours on Sunday afternoon, when I woke up to the knowledge that the tide had cut me off; of course I had chosen a place where the cliff was climable (?), but it took rather long with all my books in my hand.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:24 Aug 1906
Country:France
Timeafternoon: '5 hours on Sunday afternoon'
Place:city: Dinard
other location: 'little bays...on rocks...cliff seat'
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: 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: Title:[unknown]
Genre:Unknown
Form of Text:Print: Book, 'books' 'with all my books in my hand'
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceowned
Possibly owned based on 'with all my books in my hand'
Source Information:
Record ID:34083
Source:T. E. Lawrence
Editor:M. R. Lawrence
Title:The Home Letters of T. E. Lawrence and His Brothers
Place of Publication:Oxford
Date of Publication:1954
Vol:n/a
Page:29
Additional Comments:
'Letter from T. E. Lawrence [signed Ned] to his Mother, Dinard, Friday, 24 August, 1906'.
Citation:
T. E. Lawrence, M. R. Lawrence (ed.), The Home Letters of T. E. Lawrence and His Brothers, (Oxford, 1954), n/a, p. 29, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=34083, accessed: 12 May 2025
Additional Comments:
Citation for section 3:4 'T. E. Lawrence studies' accessed at http://www.telstudies.org on 5 February 2016. I have not entered all the relevant reading experiences from this book.
