Record Number: 32062

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I have had a weekend's C.B. Unshaven on parade ... from six to ten on Saturday and Sunday nights I had to double 600 yards to the guardroom, to report, every half-hour, when "defaulters" blew. It meant I could not read for more than a few minutes at a time, and I had Tom Sawyer. I was the only man in the hut those two evenings, except for the old hut orderly, asleep on a form near the stove. How I would have loved to lie down and read or sleep in the quietness.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 18 Jan 1918 and 20 Jan 1918

Country:

England

Time

evening

Place:

city: Catterick
county: Yorkshire
specific address: Catterick Camp
other location: 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:

Mark Twain (pseud.)

Title:

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Genre:

Fiction, Cookery

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

32062

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:

35

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

R. H. Kiernan, Little Brother Goes Soldiering, (London, 1930), p. 35, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=32062, accessed: 26 April 2025

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Additional Comments:

None