Record Number: 33041
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
‘I have only just arrived here: the last ten days having been occupied in reading "The Egoist" in the Orderly Room at Moore [Barracks, Shorncliffe]. It was my sad fate to be left in charge of the Details after rejoining from Hythe: to wait on and hand over barracks to the Canadians. The Canadians were a week overdue, when at last they poured in in the small hours of Monday morning … [?8 March]. I am going to take a course of Meredith before going out [to France]. In a job like this it should act as Eno’s Fruit Salt to the constipated brains.’
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 27 Feb 1915 and 9 Mar 1915
Country:England
Timedaytime
Place:city: Cheriton
county: Kent
specific address: Shorncliffe (Moore Barracks)
location in dwelling: Orderly Room
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:19 May 1895
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Second Lieutenant, 7th Suffolk Regiment
Religion:Agnostic
Country of Origin:Scotland
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:The Egoist
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:33041
Source:Charles Hamilton Sorley
Editor:Jean Moorcroft Wilson
Title:The Collected Letters of Charles Hamilton Sorley
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1990
Vol:n/a
Page:215-216
Additional Comments:
Letter to Mrs Sorley, Blenheim Barracks, Aldershot, 9 March 1915
Citation:
Charles Hamilton Sorley, Jean Moorcroft Wilson (ed.), The Collected Letters of Charles Hamilton Sorley, (London, 1990), p. 215-216, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33041, accessed: 09 May 2025
Additional Comments:
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