Record Number: 33053

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

24 June 1916 ‘I came to this dreadful place a week ago. The Medical Board gave me “light duty”—but they don’t understand the term here. We get up at 5.30 a.m. and are still at it till tea time and sometimes later. And all the time the same monotonous work—shouting oneself hoarse … I’ve got something you must read—Bernard Shaw’s preface to Androcles and the Lion, just published. It is, I think, the last word on Christianity, and one of the best things Shaw has ever written … I get the New Age every week …’

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

24 Jun 1916

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Rugeley
county: Staffordshire
other location: Rugeley Camp

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:

Herbert Edward Read

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

4 Dec 1893

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Second Lieutenant, Yorkshire Regiment

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

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:

Bernard Shaw

Title:

Androcles and the Lion

Genre:

Drama

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

London: Constable, 1916

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

33053

Source:

Print

Author:

Herbert Read

Editor:

n/a

Title:

The Contrary Experience: Autobiographies

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1963

Vol:

n/a

Page:

71-2

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Herbert Read, The Contrary Experience: Autobiographies, (London, 1963), p. 71-2, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33053, accessed: 09 May 2025

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Additional Comments:

None