Record Number: 20549
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
E. M. Forster to Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, 28 July 1916: 'I still like my work [as Red Cross worker tracing missing soldiers] and do the motherly to Tommies as you say, and I hope in one case the brotherly [...] I lent him books by you, and though he stuck in The Meaning of Good as "unlikely to help", John Chinaman he liked so much as to read part of it aloud to the rest of the ward. "They said What do you want to read that for? I said it's very interesting about the opium as showing what Europe's like. They said But what does it matter? Who cares?" [...] he grew up in respectable circles in the west of England'.
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Jan 1916 and 28 Jul 1916
Country:Egypt
Timen/a
Place:city: Alexandria
Type of Experience(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:n/a
Socio-Economic Group:Servant
Occupation:Ship's steward/enlisted soldier
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:Egypt
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:The Meaning of Good
Genre:Essays / Criticism, Philosophy
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Details1901
Provenanceborrowed (other)
Source Information:
Record ID:20549
Source:E. M. Forster
Editor:Mary Lago and P. N. Furbank
Title:Selected Letters of E. M. Forster
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1983
Vol:1
Page:237
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
E. M. Forster, Mary Lago and P. N. Furbank (ed.), Selected Letters of E. M. Forster (London, 1983), 1, p. 237, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=20549, accessed: 02 May 2024
Additional Comments:
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