Record Number: 8383

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Elizabeth Goodman, who in the ordinary way read only the Bible and a popular comic, "Ally Sloper's Weekly", at Christmas time "flung into the festooned disorder of the nursery a pile of Christmas numbers, and thence forward walked with us, for a week or two, in a world of pure romance."'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1870 and 31 Dec 1879

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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:

Reading Group:

Elizabeth Goodman (nursemaid) and Mew children

Age:

Unknown

Gender:

Unknown

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Unknown/NA

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

Church of England

Country of Origin:

n/a

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:

Title:

Christmas numbers of magazines

Genre:

Fiction, Ephemera, Miscellany / Anthology

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

8383

Source:

Print

Author:

Penelope Fitzgerald

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Charlotte Mew and Her Friends

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1984

Vol:

n/a

Page:

18

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Penelope Fitzgerald, Charlotte Mew and Her Friends, (London, 1984), p. 18, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=8383, accessed: 02 April 2025

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Additional Comments:

Quotation from Charlotte Mew, 'An Old Servant', Charlotte Mew: Collected Poems and Prose, ed. Val Warner (London, 1982) p.401; this an autobiographical article written for periodical publication, and used by Fitzgerald as a reliable source.