Record Number: 11429
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'On the wall at the side of the chimney Dad put up the bookshelves which Dodie began to fill with secondhand penny books. Over the years we had Conrad and Wodehouse, Eric Linklater and Geoffrey Farnol, Edgar Wallace, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, Mark Twain, Arnold Bennett, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Buchan, and a host of others, good, bad and awful, and we read the lot, some of them over and over.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Jan 1930 and 31 Dec 1950
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: London
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:
Reading Group: Age:Unknown
Gender:Unknown
Date of Birth:n/a
Socio-Economic Group:Labourer (non-agricultural)
Occupation:mother/wife a cleaner, father/husband an irregularly employed seaman
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
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:[unknown]
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailssecond hand penny book
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:11429
Source:Rose Gamble
Editor:n/a
Title:Chelsea Child
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1979
Vol:n/a
Page:143
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
Rose Gamble, Chelsea Child, (London, 1979), p. 143, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=11429, accessed: 17 August 2024
Additional Comments:
None