Record Number: 3135
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
"[In Lark Rise to Candleford (1947)] Flora Thompson recollected young Willie, whose family were village carpenters, being fond of reading, including poetry: 'somehow he had got posession of an old shattered copy of an anthology called A Thousand and One Gems', which he read aloud with her, sitting under nut trees at the bottom of the garden, in the 1890s."
Century:1850-1899, 1900-1945
Date:unknown
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:other location: Garden
Type of Experience(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:n/a
Socio-Economic Group:Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Occupation:son of carpenter
Religion:unknown
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:A Thousand and One Gems of English Poetry
Genre:Poetry, Miscellany / Anthology
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Details1867
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:3135
Source:Philp Waller
Editor:n/a
Title:Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918
Place of Publication:Oxford
Date of Publication:2006
Vol:n/a
Page:62-3
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
Philp Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918, (Oxford, 2006), p. 62-3, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=3135, accessed: 04 May 2024
Additional Comments:
None