Record Number: 34517

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I've been frightfully lazy today: it's been too hot to do anything. Pater was a gem: he brought my breakfast up about 9.30 and I didn't get up until eleven. I read "Getting Together", a pro-American little book by Ian Hay—he has been out to America for the Government to establish a feeling of goodwill and the book is what he has discovered about the Yankees. Have been reading Bulwer-Lytton's "Last Days of Pompeii" this afternoon. It is awfully interesting, especially as I have seen Pompeii.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

17 Jun 1917

Country:

England

Time

afternoon

Place:

city: Kingston upon Hull
county: East Yorkshire
specific address: Beech Croft, Newland Park
location in dwelling: bedroom

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:

Dora Willatt

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

1894

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

VAD Nurse

Religion:

Methodist

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Title:

The Last Days of Pompeii

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

34517

Source:

Print

Author:

Dora Willatt

Editor:

Alan Wilkinson

Title:

"Thank God I'm Not a Boy!": The Letters of Dora Willatt, Daughter, Sweetheart and Nurse, 1915-18

Place of Publication:

Hull

Date of Publication:

1997

Vol:

n/a

Page:

173

Additional Comments:

Letter from Dora Willatt to Cecil Moorhouse Slack, 17 June 1917. The unabridged letters exchanged by the Slack and Willatt families during the First World War have now been digitised by East Riding of Yorkshire Council and can be found here: https://digital1418.wordpress.com/2014/04/09/cecil-slack-the-great-war-letters/.

Citation:

Dora Willatt, Alan Wilkinson (ed.), "Thank God I'm Not a Boy!": The Letters of Dora Willatt, Daughter, Sweetheart and Nurse, 1915-18, (Hull, 1997), p. 173, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=34517, accessed: 25 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

None