Record Number: 5219
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Jonathan Rose, "How Historians Study Reader Response: or, What did Jo Think of Bleak House?": "George Acorn recalled that, growing up in extreme poverty in London's East End, he scraped up 3 1/2d to buy a used copy of David Copperfield. His parents soundly thrashed him when they learned he had wasted so much money on a book, but later he read it to them: "'And how we all loved it ... how we all cried together at poor old Peggotty's distress!'"
Century:1850-1899
Date:unknown
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: London
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:Unknown/NA
Occupation:n/a
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:n/a
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
Reader's parents
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:David Copperfield
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:5219
Source:n/a
Editor:John O. and Robert L. Jordan and Patten
Title:Literature in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century British Publishing and Reading Practices
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Date of Publication:1995
Vol:n/a
Page:206
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
John O. and Robert L. Jordan and Patten (ed.), Literature in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century British Publishing and Reading Practices, (Cambridge, 1995), p. 206, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=5219, accessed: 10 November 2024
Additional Comments:
Quotation from George Acorn, One of the Multitude (London, 1911) 28-35.