Record Number: 31171

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'The house in which I was born was ... a two-centuries-old Georgian mansion, a barrack of a place that seemed even larger in my juvenile perspective than it actually was ... Here—when I grew older and had learned to read—I could get away in a corner and read all day until a properly organized search party routed me out. Castle Squander, Handy Andy, The Absentee, and many another old Irish tale of the "big house" found a not inappropriate setting for me in those echoing rooms with their cracked plaster ceilings and tattered wallpapers.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1903 and 1907

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

county: Surrey

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Desmond Malone

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1898

Socio-Economic Group:

Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder

Occupation:

Child

Religion:

Roman Catholic

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Maria Edgeworth

Title:

The Absentee

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

31171

Source:

Print

Author:

Desmond Malone

Editor:

n/a

Title:

The Last Landfall

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1936

Vol:

n/a

Page:

15, 17

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Desmond Malone, The Last Landfall, (London, 1936), p. 15, 17, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=31171, accessed: 21 December 2024

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Additional Comments:

None