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Record Number: 32066


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Out round waggon lines to fix new places to park amm. waggons and then round dump in morning. In after luncheon—Gibbs out. Read Morley's Robespierre—those times nearly as mad as these.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

4 Mar 1917

Country:

France

Time

afternoon

Place:

city: near Mézières
other location: in billet

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:

Ludovic Heathcoat-Amory

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

11 May 1881

Socio-Economic Group:

Gentry

Occupation:

Major, 32nd Divisional Artillery

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

France

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

John Morley

Title:

'Robespierre: An Essay'

Genre:

Essays / Criticism

Form of Text:

Print: Book, Unknown

Publication Details

In 'Critical Miscellanies'?

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

32066

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

A. B. Scott

Title:

Artillery and Trench Mortar Memories

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1932

Vol:

n/a

Page:

609

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

A. B. Scott (ed.), Artillery and Trench Mortar Memories, (London, 1932), p. 609, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=32066, accessed: 25 May 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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