Evidence: | ''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The Christian Herald". I read a complete series of sentimental love tales very popular at that time called "Sunday Stories". I read novels illustrating the dangers of intemperance and the values of thrift. I read a new periodical called "The Penny Magazine" which my brother Willie got: it was modelled on "Tit-bits", and contained all sorts of useless information. But I had no children's books and no fairy-tales: my father's witch stories made up for that.' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Garth | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Edwin Muir |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 15 May 1887 |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | farmer's son, later poet |
Religion: | Protestant |
Country of origin: | Scotland |
Country of experience: | Scotland |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | [n/a] |
Title: | The People's Journal |
Genre: | Miscellany / Anthology |
Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 11328 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Edwin Muir | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | The story and the fable: An autobiography | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1940 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 84-85 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Edwin Muir, The story and the fable: An autobiography (London, 1940), p. 84-85, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=11328, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
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