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Record Number: 4605


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'To counteract [Sunday School pupils' imitating bad deeds of children in children's storybooks] ... [M. C.] Mondy read the same books "and gave the early part of the afternoon to talking over wat they had read ..."'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

unknown

Country:

England

Time

daytime

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


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

M. C. Mondy

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Unknown/NA

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

England

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

Sunday School pupils


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

stories

Genre:

Fiction, Children's Lit

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

4605

Source:

Print

Author:

Kate Flint

Editor:

n/a

Title:

The Woman Reader 1837-1914

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

1993

Vol:

n/a

Page:

111

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Kate Flint, The Woman Reader 1837-1914 (Oxford, 1993), p. 111, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=4605, accessed: 02 May 2024


Additional Comments:

Quotation from M. C. Mondy, "Reading as a Means of Education" p.5.

   
   
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