Record Number: 34086

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'"The day was fair and sunny, sea and sky "Drank its inspiring radiance, and the wind "Swept strongly from the shore, blackening the waves." I went to my seat on the cliff and read; beneath this projecting rock the sea "On bare black pointed islets ever beats "With heaving surge."' [The quotation however is 'On black bare pointed islets ever beat / With sluggish surge']. 'As I have started giving quotations you will have to endure more, or burn the letter [...] I reached there before two today and stayed till seven. I think an August afternoon is the best time of the year...'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

26 Aug 1906

Country:

France

Time

afternoon: 'before two and stayed till seven'
evening

Place:

city: Dinard
other location: 'seat on the cliff'

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:

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

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Text Being Read:

Author:

[Anon] [Anon]

Title:

[unknown]

Genre:

Unknown

Form of Text:

Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

34086

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:

32

Additional Comments:

'Letter from T. E. Lawrence [signed Ned] to his Mother, Dinard, Sunday, 26th August, 1906'. The quotations are from 'Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude' , by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Citation:

T. E. Lawrence, M. R. Lawrence (ed.), The Home Letters of T. E. Lawrence and His Brothers, (Oxford, 1954), n/a, p. 32, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=34086, accessed: 13 May 2025

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Additional Comments:

citation for section 3:4 'T. E. Lawrence studies' accessed at http://www.telstudies.org on 5 February 2016 citation for section 2: quotation accessed at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174380 on 20 February 2016 'I have not entered all the relevant reading experiences from this book'.