| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1900-1945 | 'London hatter Frederick Willis asserted that [Frank Richards's stories in the Gem and Magnet] taught him to be "very ... | Frederick Willis | Frank Richards | [stories in the Gem] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'London hatter Frederick Willis asserted that [Frank Richards' stories in the Gem and Magnet] 'taught him to be "very ... | Frederick Willis | Frank Richards | [stories in the Magnet] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Edward Ezard admitted that he and his friends read the Gem and Magnet for "the public school glamour". They thoroughl... | Edward Ezard | Frank Richards | [stories in the Magnet] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Edward Ezard admitted that he and his friends read the Gem and Magnet for "the public school glamour". They thoroughly... | Edward Ezard | Frank Richards | [stories in the Gem] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'For Paul Fletcher, a colliery winder's son in a Lancashire mining town, the Magnet's appeal lay precisely in that "co... | Paul Fletcher | Frank Richards | [stories in the Magnet] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'A.J. Mills, a charlady's son, recalled that his teachers made a pathetic attempt to teach an honour system but "the n... | A.J. Mills | Frank Richards | [stories in the Magnet] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | [Lionel Fraser dreamt unfulfilledly of Oxbridge]: 'Whatever resentment he may have felt was mollified by the Gem and M... | Lionel Fraser | Frank Richards | [stories in the Magnet] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | [Lionel Fraser dreamt unfulfilledly of Oxbridge]: 'Whatever resentment he may have felt was mollified by the Gem and M... | Lionel Fraser | Frank Richards | [stories in the Gem] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Charwoman's son Bryan Forbes "devoured every word, believed every word" of the Magnet and Gem, "surrendering to a wor... | Bryan Forbes | Frank Richards | [stories in the Gem] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Charwoman's son Bryan Forbes "devoured every word, believed every word" of the Magnet and Gem, "surrendering to a wor... | Bryan Forbes | Frank Richards | [stories in the Magnet] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Louis Battye, the spastic child of former millworkers, was at first utterly bewildered by the Gem and Magnet, because... | Louis Battye | Frank Richards | [stories in the Magnet] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Louis Battye, the spastic child of former millworkers, was at first utterly bewildered by the Gem and Magnet, because... | Louis Battye | Frank Richards | [stories in the Gem] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'V.S. Pritchett furtively devoured the Gem and Magnet with a compositor's son: both adopted Greyfriars nicknames and s... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | Frank Richards | [school stories in the Gem] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'V.S. Pritchett furtively devoured the Gem and Magnet with a compositor's son: both adopted Greyfriars nicknames and s... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | Frank Richards | [school stories in the Magnet] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Amy Gomm, an electrician's daughter, discovered the erotics of the text in some old Gems and Magnets she found in a c... | Amy Gomm | Frank Richards | [school stories in the Magnet] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Amy Gomm, an electrician's daughter, discovered the erotics of the text in some old Gems and Magnets she found in a c... | Amy Gomm | Frank Richards | [school stories in the Gem] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'After Dennis Marsden won an exhibition to St Catherine's College, Cambridge his parents, solid Labour supporters, "fo... | | Frank Richards | [school stories in the Magnet] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Hymie Fagan, an East End Jewish Communist, picked up public school ethics from the Gem, the Magnet and the stories of... | Hymie Fagan | Frank Richards | [school stories in The Magnet] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Hymie Fagan, an East End Jewish Communist, picked up public school ethics from the Gem, the Magnet and the stories of... | Hymie Fagan | Frank Richards | [school stories in The Gem] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | [Harry Burton recalled' "we wallowed in Eric and St Winifred's and other school stories, especially Talbot Baines Reed... | Harry Burton | Frank Richards | [School Stories in the Magnet and the Gem] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'he swapped and shared books, especially Billy Bunter stories. ("[Bunter's] roars and squeaks of anguish were constant... | Philip Larkin | Frank Richards | [Billy Bunter stories] | Print: Book |