Record Number: 2800

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'"In my childhood, I never met another who could not read", [H.M. Tomlinson] recalled. "Some of them could be so excited by the printed page that they passed on the fun they had found, and thus... I was introduced to Mayne Reid, and again to Harrison Ainsworth, with "The Headless Horseman" and "Rookwood"".'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

unknown

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: London
other location: East End

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:

Reader:

H.M. Tomlinson

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1872

Socio-Economic Group:

Labourer (non-agricultural)

Occupation:

dockworker's son, later author

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

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Text Being Read:

Author:

William Harrison Ainsworth

Title:

Rookwood

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

borrowed (other)
lent by friends

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Source Information:

Record ID:

2800

Source:

Print

Author:

Jonathan Rose

Editor:

n/a

Title:

The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes

Place of Publication:

New Haven

Date of Publication:

2001

Vol:

n/a

Page:

158

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, (New Haven, 2001), p. 158, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=2800, accessed: 02 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

See H.M. Tomlinson, "A Mingled Yarn" (London, 1953) pp.11-13