Record Number: 32059

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'If one read at all one was soon noticed. I lay in bed one night with a book I had bought at Smith's. They had a shop near our hut in Catterick Camp. It was S. R. Crockett's The Smugglers. I was snuggling down in my blanket and enjoying the look of printed pages and only wishing for quietness to read. A cinder fell on my bed. I glanced up but no one was looking my way. This happened two or three times, till one hit my face and fell on the book. I just caught Simpson as I looked up. He was a potter's lad from Hanley. I got out of bed and went for him. He had no idea of boxing, and I could hit him anywhere. He was swinging and kicking all the time. The hut was in an uproar. They were all for him ... Someone kicked me in the ribs as I crawled back to bed. My face was like a melon at one side next morning.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between Nov 1917 and 22 Dec 1917

Country:

England

Time

evening

Place:

city: Catterick
county: Yorkshire
specific address: Catterick Camp
other location: In bed, in hut

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:

Reginald Hugh Kiernan

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

28 Apr 1900

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Private, British Army

Religion:

Roman Catholic

Country of Origin:

Ireland

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:

Samuel Rutherford Crockett

Title:

The Smugglers: The Odyssey of Zipporah Katti

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

First published 1911

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

32059

Source:

Print

Author:

R. H. Kiernan

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Little Brother Goes Soldiering

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1930

Vol:

n/a

Page:

25-26

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

R. H. Kiernan, Little Brother Goes Soldiering, (London, 1930), p. 25-26, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=32059, accessed: 17 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

None