Record Number: 4474

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'For Paul Fletcher, a colliery winder's son in a Lancashire mining town, the Magnet's appeal lay precisely in that "code of schoolboy honour". "Although I never realised it at the time, it proved to influence me more about right or wrong than any other book", he recalled, "And that includes the Bible". After all, the Greyfriars code "was as well defined as the scriptures [were] nebulous".'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1920 and 31 Dec 1930

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

county: Lancashire

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:

Paul Fletcher

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1912

Socio-Economic Group:

Labourer (non-agricultural)

Occupation:

colliery winder's son

Religion:

n/a

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:

Frank Richards

Title:

[stories in the Magnet]

Genre:

Fiction, Children's Lit, Ephemera

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

4474

Source:

Print

Author:

Jonathan Rose

Editor:

n/a

Title:

The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes

Place of Publication:

New Haven

Date of Publication:

2001

Vol:

n/a

Page:

323

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, (New Haven, 2001), p. 323, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=4474, accessed: 22 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

See Paul Fletcher, 'The Clatter of Clogs: Life in Lancashire During the Twenties as Seen Through The Eyes of a Boy' (Bolton, 1972) pp. 102-4