Record Number: 3150
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
On readers of William Robertson Nicoll's British Weekly: " ... [a] Lancashire man ... started reading the British Weekly as a newspaper boy, which 'gave me the taste for forming my own library ...'"
Century:1850-1899
Date:unknown
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:n/a
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:Male
Date of Birth:n/a
Socio-Economic Group:Unknown/NA
Occupation:Newspaper boy
Religion:unknown
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
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 British Weekly
Genre:Fiction, Essays / Criticism, Biography, Miscellany / Anthology
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication DetailsFirst appeared 1886.
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:3150
Source:Philp Waller
Editor:n/a
Title:Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918
Place of Publication:Oxford
Date of Publication:2006
Vol:n/a
Page:113
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Philp Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918, (Oxford, 2006), p. 113, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=3150, accessed: 27 September 2024
Additional Comments:
Quotation from T. H. Darlow, William Robertson Nicoll: Life and Letters (1925) 425-6.