Henry Mayhew interviews 'educated' costermongers who read fiction aloud to groups of costermongers in the courts they inhabit; long account of the comments made by illiterate costermongers when cheap serials are read to them, comments on the story lines they like, characters and illustrations; reading of G.W.M. Reynolds's "Mysteries" and Edward Lloyd's penny bloods
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Serial / periodical
'My sticks of rhubarb were wrapped up in a copy of the "Star" containing Lloyd George's last, more than eloquent speech. As I snipped up the rhubarb my eye fell, was fixed and fastened on, that sentence wherein he tells us that we have grasped our niblick and struck out for the open course.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Newspaper
"And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's Penny Times' to Cobbett's Works, 'French without a Master,' together with English, Roman, and Grecian history."
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Massey Print: Newspaper
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
'I did this day, going by water, read the Answer to the "Apology for Papists", which did like me mightily, it being a thing as well writ as I think most things that ever I read in my life, and glad I am that I read it.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book
'After dinner by coach as far as the Temple and there saw a new book in Folio of all that suffered for the King in the late times - which I will buy; it seems well writ.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Unknown
'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue:- 1.12.36
C. E. Stansfield in the Chair
1. Minutes of last read + approved
4. The Secretary presented a statement of accounts showing the Club to have a balance of £1-
18-0, with money from the auction still to come.
6. Readings were then given by the following people.
F. E. Pollard: from Lloyd George’s Memoirs.
Dorothea Taylor from Quennells
A Rawlings: the story of Hervé Riel
H. R. Smith: from Nevinson’s Between Two [sic] Wars.
V. W. Alexander: from W. F. Harvey’s "We were seven".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis E. Pollard Print: Book
