Record Number: 6089
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
J. R. R. Aadams quotes from memoirs of Seamus MacManus (The Rocky Road to Dublin, 1939) on how MacManus (b. Donegal, c.1868) read the merchandise [mainly popular song and story chapbooks] on sale from bookstalls at country fairs, concluding " ... the young Jaimie managed, by persistently parking himself at the left-hand corner of the stand where the books were displayed, to get through the entire stock a little at a time, when the owner was not looking or was feeling indulgent."
Century:1800-1849, 1850-1899
Date:unknown
Country:Ireland
Timen/a
Place:other location: bookstall at fair
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:1868
Socio-Economic Group:Unknown/NA
Occupation:n/a
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:Ireland
Country of Experience:Ireland
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:popular chapbooks
Genre:Fiction, Ephemera
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceread in situ
Source Information:
Record ID:6089
Source:J. R. R. Adams
Editor:n/a
Title:The Printed Word and the Common Man: Popular Culture in Ulster 1700-1900
Place of Publication:Belfast
Date of Publication:1987
Vol:n/a
Page:159-60
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
J. R. R. Adams, The Printed Word and the Common Man: Popular Culture in Ulster 1700-1900, (Belfast, 1987), p. 159-60, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=6089, accessed: 27 September 2024
Additional Comments:
None