Record Number: 11452
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in great gulps -gave me a "Robinson Crusoe", and lent me volumes containing four "Waverley Novels" apiece. Much about the same time my father got bound up a set of Dickens's novels he had bought in weekly parts. They were in the popular quarto edition with drawings by Fred Barnard, John Mahony and others. These were a real treasure -and all the more so as my father was an ardent Dickens "fan" who rather despised Scott as a "romantic" and a "Tory". His mother (born in 1815, so old enough to have read the "Waverley Novels" when they were still comparatively new things) rather sniffed at Dickens, and definitely preferred both Scott and Thackeray. She gave me "Vanity Fair" as an antidote to "David Copperfield" and added a Shakespeare, and a bundle of "paperback" editions -Fielding, Smollett, Fennimore Cooper and Captain Marryatt.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Between 21 Aug 1879 and 21 Aug 1894
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:
Reader: Age:Child (0-17)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:21 Aug 1879
Socio-Economic Group:Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Occupation:son of master craftsman, reading boy at printers
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Vanity Fair
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceborrowed (private library)
from grandmother
Source Information:
Record ID:11452
Source:T.A. Jackson
Editor:n/a
Title:Solo Trumpet: Some memories of Socialist agitation and propaganda
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1953
Vol:n/a
Page:16
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
T.A. Jackson, Solo Trumpet: Some memories of Socialist agitation and propaganda, (London, 1953), p. 16, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=11452, accessed: 17 August 2024
Additional Comments:
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