Record Number: 29379
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'The new faculty had to be fed, however, and my eye fastened on all printed matter. I read passages in the Daily Chronicle which had just replaced the Daily Mail in our home, as a result of my father's increasing rancour towards the governing class ...'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between Mar 1900 and May 1900
Country:UK
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:26 Mar 1893
Socio-Economic Group:Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Father was post office clerk. Mother primary school teacher.
In adulthood, writer and editor
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:UK
Country of Experience:UK
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:The Daily Chronicle
Genre:n/a
Form of Text:Print: Newspaper
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenancen/a
Source Information:
Record ID:29379
Source:Richard Church
Editor:n/a
Title:Over the Bridge
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1955
Vol:n/a
Page:96-7
Additional Comments:
After acquiring his "first pair of spectacles" Church recounts how he became "a bookworm".
Citation:
Richard Church, Over the Bridge, (London, 1955), p. 96-7, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=29379, accessed: 29 September 2024
Additional Comments:
Church relates the political awakening that comes from the experience of reading about the Boer War: 'I remember reading the war news in this Daily Chronicle and feeling my mind rising up inside me like a cat waking up from sleep.' p 97
