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1450-1945

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Record 10244

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'In her spare time she was a great reader of novelettes and out of her four shillings subscribed to "Bow Bells" and the "Family Herald". Once when Laura, coming home from school, happened to overtake her, she enlivened the rest of the journey with the synopsis of a serial she was reading, called "His Ice Queen"'.
Century: 1850-1899
Date: unknown
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Juniper Hill
county: Oxfordshire
   
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:Flora Thompson
Age Child (0-17)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 5 Dec 1876
Socio-economic group: Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Occupation: Daughter of stonemason
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: [n/a]
Title: Family Herald
Genre: Fiction, Miscellany / Anthology
Form of Text: Print: Serial / periodical
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 10244  
Source - Print  
  Author: Flora Thompson
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Lark Rise to Candleford
  Place of Publication: England
  Date of Publication: 1945
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 47
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Flora Thompson, Lark Rise to Candleford (England, 1945), p. 47, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=10244, accessed: 28 March 2024

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