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Record Number: 31085


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'By the time I was seventeen, my passion for reading had become so intense that a few hours [study in the public library] in the evenings seemed totally insufficient ... I started to spend odd shillings in second-hand bookshops and to keep my pockets stuffed with a volume or two for the purpose of reading when I should have been working. Chief among these first purchases were the volumes of the Everyman's Library ... A handy size for the pocket, they introduced me to Emerson's essays, Marcus Aurelius, Coleridge's Biographica Literaria, Carlyle, and to other writers.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

1909

Country:

England

Time

evening

Place:

city: Birmingham
county: West Midlands
specific address: "P & C" Gasworks
location in dwelling: Factory floor

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:

Vero Walter Garratt

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

17 Feb 1892

Socio-Economic Group:

Labourer (non-agricultural)

Occupation:

Factory worker

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:

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Title:

unknown

Genre:

Essays / Criticism

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

in the "Everyman's Library" series

Provenance

read in situ


Source Information:

Record ID:

31085

Source:

Print

Author:

Vero Walter Garratt

Editor:

n/a

Title:

A Man in the Street

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1939

Vol:

n/a

Page:

96

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Vero Walter Garratt, A Man in the Street, (London, 1939), n/a, p. 96, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=31085, accessed: 10 November 2024


Additional Comments:

There were several volumes of Emerson's Essays in print with Dent at this time, and it is impossible to specify which of these Garratt is referring to.

   
   
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