the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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William Shaw : When I was a Child, Recollections of an Old Potter

'. . . his reading of that remarkable book, "When I was a Child, Recollections of an Old Potter"'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

William Shaw : When I was a child, recollections from an old potter

'The description of his [the character Darius Clayhanger in Clayhanger] labours as a child, and his days in the workhouse, are not drawn from Enoch's own past, but largely from a book by William Shaw published in 1903, called When I was a Child, Recollections of an Old Potter [title in italics]. But Arnold Bennett's knowledge of such matters cannot have been gleaned wholly from books. It must have been in the air.'

Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

William Shaw : [Erse Grammar]

'One Shaw, who seems a modest and a decent man, has written an Erse Grammar, which a very learned Highlander, Macbean, has, at my request, examined and approved.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Macbean      Manuscript: Unknown

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