Record Number: 31177
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'On many nights I would sit beside the kitchen fire, listening to my father reading or telling tales. There was no wireless then and no gramophones, and our fireside talk was little different from that which had been going on for generations by any Connaught fireside ... At other times my father would read to me from a book. These tales were usually of the "creepy" variety—Thrawn Janet; or one of Marion Crawford's uncanny stories; or Green Tea, or The Watcher, by that master of the macabre, Sheridan Le Fanu; or the most vivid ghost story in English, Bulwer Lytton's The Haunted and the Haunters; and many another tooth-chattering tale, as Stevenson called them.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1903 and 1907
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:county: Surrey
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:
Listener: Age:Child (0-17)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:1898
Socio-Economic Group:Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Occupation:Child
Religion:Roman Catholic
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:The Haunted and the Haunters
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:31177
Source:Desmond Malone
Editor:n/a
Title:The Last Landfall
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1936
Vol:n/a
Page:28
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Desmond Malone, The Last Landfall, (London, 1936), p. 28, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=31177, accessed: 07 October 2024
Additional Comments:
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