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Thomas Wright

 

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[n/a] : [playbill]

'As our roads home from school lay for a considerable distance in the same direction, Tommy Davies...and I generally walked home together, making numerous stoppages along the way to read, admire and compare the playbills of the different theatres. One afternoon in the latter end of the month of October we were going home, when our attention was forcibly arrested by a bill of an unusually attracive character. It was a very large, very highly coloured and very profusely illustrated bill...'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Wright      Print: Broadsheet, Poster, playbill

  

[n/a] : [Weekly Screamer]

'[On Sunday] After breakfast I had taken up the "Weekly Examiner", and was intent upon a more than usually scurrilous and illogical leading article, when the paper was suddenly snatched from my hands by my landlady, who sternly asked me if I thought reading a newspaper on a Sunday morning was proper behaviour in the house of a God-fearing couple.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Wright      Print: Newspaper

 

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