Record Number: 11591
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'The following Saturday afternoon [father] was a bit late getting home from work; he must have gone to the second-hand bookstall in the market. ...he handed me a book that was dropping to pieces. It was thin, with a dark green back. There were about fifty pages; there had been a lot more but the others must have dropped out. All the pages were loose. It was called "Guy's Expositor". It was just lists of words, but it told you where they had come from, and how their meaning had varied through the ages so that some words, eventually, came to mean just the opposite from what they had meant long ago. I was thrilled to the marrow with it...'
Century:1850-1899, 1900-1945
Date:unknown
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: St Helens
county: Lancashire
location in dwelling: at home
(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:14 Oct 1886
Socio-Economic Group:Labourer (non-agricultural)
Occupation:school boy, son of iron moulder
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
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Guy's Expositor
Genre:Reference / General works
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailssecond hand
Provenanceowned
gift from father
Source Information:
Record ID:11591
Source:Joseph Stamper
Editor:n/a
Title:So long ago
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1960
Vol:n/a
Page:186
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
Joseph Stamper, So long ago, (London, 1960), p. 186, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=11591, accessed: 19 April 2024
Additional Comments:
None
