Record Number: 5067
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Elizabeth Segel, in "'As the Twig is Bent ...': Gender and Childhood Reading": " [Melvyn Bragg] became 'hooked' on Alcott after having picked up at a seaside bookshop Jo's Boys ... 'I read it countless times,' he remembered, 'and the pleasure I found in it ... enabled me to hurdle the terrible barrier presented by Little Women, which I sought out at the library on the hunt for anything else by Louisa May Alcott ... For Little Women, Miss Alcott announced, firmly, on the title page, was A Story for Girls. Yet I read it.'"
Century:1900-1945
Date:unknown
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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:Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
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Country of Origin:England
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Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Jo's Boys
Genre:Fiction, Children's Lit
Form of Text:Print: Book
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Source Information:
Record ID:5067
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Editor:Elizabeth A. and Patrocinio P. Flynn and Schweickart
Title:Gender and Reading: Essays on Readers, Texts, and Contexts
Place of Publication:Baltimore
Date of Publication:1992
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Page:177
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Citation:
Elizabeth A. and Patrocinio P. Flynn and Schweickart (ed.), Gender and Reading: Essays on Readers, Texts, and Contexts, (Baltimore, 1992), p. 177, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=5067, accessed: 18 July 2024
Additional Comments:
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