Record Number: 2211

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Throughout our childhood, mother read aloud to us, usually at the kitchen table, but sometimes, as a treat, in the front room and sometimes, on warm summer evenings, in the meadow beyond the garden... The books she chose for these readings were, I now see, startingly bad. Two of her greatest favourites were 'Coming Through the Rye' and 'Freckles'. The first was a tale with a middle-class Victorian background showing true love thwarted by a designing woman... But there was a passage at the end of 'Freckles' which overcame her so that she could not continue...

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1925 and 31 Dec 1935

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Exmouth
location in dwelling: at home, in kitchen, front room and garden

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary reactive unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Harriet Beer

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder

Occupation:

wife of railway clerk

Religion:

Plymouth Brethern

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

daughters -Patricia Beer and Sheila Beer

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Gene Stratton-Porter

Title:

Freckles

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

2211

Source:

Print

Author:

Patricia Beer

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Mrs Beer's House

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1968

Vol:

n/a

Page:

98-99

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Patricia Beer, Mrs Beer's House, (London, 1968), p. 98-99, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=2211, accessed: 15 September 2024

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Additional Comments:

None