Record Number: 33042

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

‘I have finished and laid by "The Egoist". I see now that Meredith belongs to that class of novelists with whom I do not usually get on so well (e.g. Dickens), who create and people worlds of their own so that one approaches the characters with amusement, admiration or contempt, not with liking or pity, as with Hardy’s people, into whom the author does not inject his own exaggerated characteristics … It is as though he saw the world through field-glasses.’

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 27 Feb 1915 and 16 Mar 1915

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Aldershot
county: Hampshire
specific address: Blenheim Barracks

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:

Charles Hamilton Sorley

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

George Meredith

Title:

The Egoist

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned
although provenance is not stated, Sorley transported this book from Kent to Hampshire so either he owned it or initially he had found ad approriated it. See RED ID 33041 foud

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Source Information:

Record ID:

33042

Source:

Print

Author:

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:

216-7

Additional Comments:

Letter to parents [Blenheim Barracks], Aldershot, 16 March 1915

Citation:

Charles Hamilton Sorley, Jean Moorcroft Wilson (ed.), The Collected Letters of Charles Hamilton Sorley, (London, 1990), p. 216-7, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33042, accessed: 09 May 2025

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Additional Comments:

None