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Record Number: 11323


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'There were numbers of a paper called, I think, "The Christian World", dating from several years back. They contained nothing but accounts of meetings and conferences, announcements of appointments to ministries, and obituary notices; yet I read them from beginning to end.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

unknown

Country:

Scotland

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Garth

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


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Edwin Muir

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

15 May 1887

Socio-Economic Group:

Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder

Occupation:

farmer's son, later poet

Religion:

Protestant

Country of Origin:

Scotland

Country of Experience:

Scotland

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

[n/a]

Title:

The Christian World

Genre:

Other religious

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

Found
left by previous farm tenant in the loft


Source Information:

Record ID:

11323

Source:

Print

Author:

Edwin Muir

Editor:

n/a

Title:

The story and the fable: An autobiography

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1940

Vol:

n/a

Page:

84

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Edwin Muir, The story and the fable: An autobiography, (London, 1940), p. 84, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=11323, accessed: 19 April 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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