Record Number: 30855

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Into white clothes but it was not very warm. Read Shway Yoe all day and played Bridge after dinner.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 20 Feb 1903 and 21 Feb 1903

Country:

at Sea (Indian Ocean)

Time

daytime

Place:

other location: on board the S.S. Tara between Calcutta and Rangoon

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:

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 (Indian Ocean)

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Shway Yoe (pseud. Sir George Scott)

Title:

The Burman: His Life and Notions

Genre:

Other religious, Geography / Travel

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Macmillan 1882

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

30855

Source - Manuscript:

Other

Information:

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

Additional Information:

Diary entry 21 February 1903 http://www.gerty.ncl.ac.uk/diary_details.php?diary_id=318

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=30855, accessed: 09 May 2025

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Additional Comments:

Sir George Scott (1851-1935) was a Scottish journalist and colonial administrator who wrote on Burma under his own name and also the book cited under the pseudonym of Shway Yoe.