Record Number: 34516
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I've been frightfully lazy today: it's been too hot to do anything. Pater was a gem: he brought my breakfast up about 9.30 and I didn't get up until eleven. I read "Getting Together", a pro-American little book by Ian Hay—he has been out to America for the Government to establish a feeling of goodwill and the book is what he has discovered about the Yankees. Have been reading Bulwer-Lytton's "Last Days of Pompeii" this afternoon. It is awfully interesting, especially as I have seen Pompeii.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:17 Jun 1917
Country:England
Timemorning
Place:city: Kingston upon Hull
county: East Yorkshire
specific address: Beech Croft, Newland Park
location in dwelling: bedroom
(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:Female
Date of Birth:1894
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:VAD Nurse
Religion:Methodist
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Getting Together
Genre:Essays / Criticism, Geography / Travel, Politics, Propaganda
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsLondon: Hodder & Stoughton, 1917
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:34516
Source:Dora Willatt
Editor:Alan Wilkinson
Title:"Thank God I'm Not a Boy!": The Letters of Dora Willatt, Daughter, Sweetheart and Nurse, 1915-18
Place of Publication:Hull
Date of Publication:1997
Vol:n/a
Page:173
Additional Comments:
Letter from Dora Willatt to Cecil Moorhouse Slack, 17 June 1917. The unabridged letters exchanged by the Slack and Willatt families during the First World War have now been digitised by East Riding of Yorkshire Council and can be found here: https://digital1418.wordpress.com/2014/04/09/cecil-slack-the-great-war-letters/.
Citation:
Dora Willatt, Alan Wilkinson (ed.), "Thank God I'm Not a Boy!": The Letters of Dora Willatt, Daughter, Sweetheart and Nurse, 1915-18, (Hull, 1997), p. 173, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=34516, accessed: 06 October 2024
Additional Comments:
None