Record Number: 8428
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'When in my early apprentice days I was first enabled to dip into the pages of "Maga", its chief attraction was the later series of "The Diary of a late physician". I greatly enjoyed the papers, and also, later on, the same author's story of "Ten Thousand a Year". [when the journal came out] I would sit on the steps [of George Street] for nearly an hour engrossed by the perusal of some interesting portion of its pages, munching at the same time my dinner of bread-and-cheese. The pages of the copies of the magazine in my custody as collector were, of course, uncut, but, having as many as eight or ten in my charge, I managed without its being discovered to cut open one leaf in each of the numbers in order to master the narrative.'
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 1 Jan 1837 and 31 Dec 1840
Country:Scotland
Timedaytime: lunch break
Place:city: Edinburgh
other location: steps on George Street
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:1824
Socio-Economic Group:Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Occupation:Apprentice in book warehouse
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:Scotland
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Ten thousand a year
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication Detailsread as serial in "Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine"
Provenanceread in situ
Source Information:
Record ID:8428
Source:James Glass Bertram
Editor:n/a
Title:Some memories of books, authors and events
Place of Publication:Westminster
Date of Publication:1893
Vol:n/a
Page:120
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
James Glass Bertram, Some memories of books, authors and events (Westminster, 1893), p. 120, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=8428, accessed: 29 March 2024
Additional Comments:
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