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Record Number: 30869


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Delicious day, bit of a roll, following wind pretty strong. Sat on deck all morning and read Bevan's "Scheurus"[??], which I finished, while we passed down Corsica [Corse] and throught the Straits.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

7 Jan 1905

Country:

at sea in the Western Mediterranean

Time

morning

Place:

other location: on board the 'Ortona' between Marseilles and Naples

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, archaeologist, yet to take up formal occupation as political advisor

Religion:

originally Christian (Anglican) by now declared atheist

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

at sea in the Western Mediterranean

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Bevan

Title:

unknown

Genre:

Unknown

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

30869

Source - Manuscript:

Other

Information:

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

Additional Information:

Diary entry 7 January 1905 http://www.gerty.ncl.ac.uk/diary_details.php?diary_id=350

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=30869, accessed: 19 May 2024


Additional Comments:

The identity of this text is unknown; no record of this title as transcribed can be found on standard bibliographic searching. It may refer to an unidentified work by the Arabist/oriental scholar Anthony Ashley Bevan (1859-1933) or his brother the philosopher and Hellenist Edwyn Bevan (1870-1943).

   
   
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