Evidence: | 'My dear boys, when I was your age, there were no such children's books as ther are now...Now, among those very stupid old-fashioned boy's books was one which taught me [to use my eyes]...It's name was Evenings at Home, and in it was a story called "Eyes and no Eyes", a regular old-fashioned, prim, sententious story.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
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Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Charles Kingsley |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Later, Anglican clergyman and author. |
Religion: | Anglican |
Country of origin: | n/a |
Country of experience: | n/a |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | John Aikin |
Title: | Evenings at home |
Genre: | Children's Lit, Conduct books |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 11283 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Charles Kingsley | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Madam How and Lady Why | |
Place of Publication: | n/a | |
Date of Publication: | 1870 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | preface | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Charles Kingsley, Madam How and Lady Why (1870), p. preface, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=11283, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
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