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Record Number: 30844


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Perfectly fine and calm again. Father read us the finished article [on Trade Unions] to our great admiration. Then we did Italian and I read Sicilian history and a little Arabic. We saw a little land in the morning — it was the Portuguese coast just south of Finisterre. Mr Waugh brought me a note for 100 piastres issued by Gordon in Khartoum in April 1884 which I interpreted. I caught a stuffy cold in the morning sitting out in the wind.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

17 Jan 1902

Country:

at sea (Atlantic Ocean)

Time

morning

Place:

other location: on deck on board the 'Menes' from Liverpool en route for the Mediterranean, off Portugal

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:

Gertrude Bell

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

16 Jul 1868

Socio-Economic Group:

Gentry

Occupation:

Oxford graduate, language student,traveller, yet to take up formal occupations as archaeologist and later, political advisor

Religion:

originally Christian (Anglican) by now declared atheist

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

at sea (Atlantic Ocean)

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

?Edward Augustus ?Freeman

Title:

?A History of Sicily from the earliest times

Genre:

History

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown
possibly owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

30844

Source - Manuscript:

Other

Information:

Gertrude Bell Archive Newcastle University Library http://www.gerty.ncl.ac.uk

Additional Information:

Diary entry 17 January 1902 http://www.gerty.ncl.ac.uk/diary_details.php?diary_id=62

Citation:

Gertrude Bell Archive Newcastle University Library http://www.gerty.ncl.ac.uk, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=30844, accessed: 18 May 2024


Additional Comments:

The identity of author and text uncertain but the Freeman book is a strong possibility.

   
   
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