Record Number: 31173

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'On many nights I would sit beside the kitchen fire, listening to my father reading or telling tales. There was no wireless then and no gramophones, and our fireside talk was little different from that which had been going on for generations by any Connaught fireside ... At other times my father would read to me from a book. These tales were usually of the "creepy" variety—Thrawn Janet; or one of Marion Crawford's uncanny stories; or Green Tea, or The Watcher, by that master of the macabre, Sheridan Le Fanu; or the most vivid ghost story in English, Bulwer Lytton's The Haunted and the Haunters; and many another tooth-chattering tale, as Stevenson called them.'

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:

Listener:

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:

Marion Crawford

Title:

unknown

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

31173

Source:

Print

Author:

Desmond Malone

Editor:

n/a

Title:

The Last Landfall

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1936

Vol:

n/a

Page:

28

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Desmond Malone, The Last Landfall, (London, 1936), p. 28, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=31173, accessed: 22 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

None