Record Number: 3746

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

John Partridge on popularity of Charles Garvice's fiction: '[at Easter 1911] I looked round a large kiosk at a popular seaside place and observed that Mr Charles Garvice's love stories fairly dominated its shelves ... I have since read in the "Daily Chronicle" that Mr Garvice's novels have already found more than six million readers.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

1911

Country:

unknown

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

John Partridge

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Journalist

Religion:

unknown

Country of Origin:

unknown

Country of Experience:

unknown

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

The Daily Chronicle

Genre:

Reference / General works

Form of Text:

Print: Newspaper

Publication Details

1911

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

3746

Source:

Print

Author:

Philip Waller

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

2006

Vol:

n/a

Page:

689-90

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Philip Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918, (Oxford, 2006), p. 689-90, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=3746, accessed: 25 April 2025

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Additional Comments:

Quotation from T. P.'s Weekly, 5 May 1911, p.556.