Record Number: 11477
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'...in one matter father and son were united. We developed a mutual love of comic papers, and together taught ourselves to read them. He could read after a fashion before I arrived, it's true, for once he'd struggled all the way through a serial in the "Girls' Own Paper" called "The Shepard's Fairy"... He always sat in the hard chair, right-hand side of the kitchen range, with his back to the window, his sleeves rolled up and the paper held firmly... Then being set, off he'd go into the latest crime of Jasper Todd, the sinister landlord of the Red Inn, or Spring-heeled Jack, or the ingenious inventions of George Gale, the Flying Detective... we went on until every item in "Chips", "Comic Cuts", "Lot o' Fun" and the "Butterfly" had been dealt with -for that week.'
Century:1850-1899, 1900-1945
Date:unknown
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Newcastle
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:Labourer (non-agricultural)
Occupation:locomotive fireman
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
Father of Jack Common
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Girls' Own Paper
Genre:Fiction, Children's Lit, Ephemera
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:11477
Source:Jack Common
Editor:n/a
Title:Kiddar's Luck
Place of Publication:Newcastle
Date of Publication:1975
Vol:n/a
Page:26
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
Jack Common, Kiddar's Luck, (Newcastle, 1975), p. 26, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=11477, accessed: 30 December 2024
Additional Comments:
None
