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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

Time

afternoon: '5 hours on Sunday afternoon'

Place:

city: Dinard
other location: 'little bays...on rocks...cliff seat'

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:

[Anon] [Anon]

Title:

[unknown]

Genre:

Unknown

Form of Text:

Print: Book, 'books' 'with all my books in my hand'

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned
Possibly owned based on 'with all my books in my hand'


Source Information:

Record ID:

34083

Source:

Print

Author:

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: 08 May 2024


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.

   
   
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