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Record Number: 2625


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of Why', an enjoyable fantasy about the plots of a cathedral gargoyle: also bits from the 'Children's Encyclopaedia', 'Hereward the Wake', comics and 'Marriage on Two Hundred a Year', one of the popular handbooks of the period.

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 16 Dec 1900 and 1 Jan 1914

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Ipswich

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


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Victor Sawdon Pritchett

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

16 Dec 1900

Socio-Economic Group:

Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder

Occupation:

son of itinerant salesman

Religion:

Christain

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

G.E. Farrow

Title:

The Wallypug of Why

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

published 1895

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

2625

Source:

Print

Author:

V.S. Pritchett

Editor:

n/a

Title:

A Cab at the Door. An autobiography: early years

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1968

Vol:

n/a

Page:

83

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

V.S. Pritchett, A Cab at the Door. An autobiography: early years (London, 1968), p. 83, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=2625, accessed: 28 March 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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