Record Number: 29100
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Dickens ... recalled that as a schoolboy he used to buy the Terrific Register, "making myself unspeakably miserable, and frightening my very wits out of my head, for the small charge of a penny weekly; which, considering that there was an illustration to every number in which there was always a pool of blood, and at least one body, was cheap."'
Century:1800-1849
Date:Country:
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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:n/a
Date of Birth:7 Feb 1812
Socio-Economic Group:Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Schoolboy, son of a clerk
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Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:n/a
Country of Experience:n/a
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:The Terrific Register
Genre:Miscellany / Anthology
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:29100
Source:Richard Altick
Editor:n/a
Title:The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900
Place of Publication:Columbus, OH
Date of Publication:1998
Vol:n/a
Page:321
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Richard Altick, The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900, (Columbus, OH, 1998), p. 321, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=29100, accessed: 28 October 2024
Additional Comments:
None