Evidence: | 'I do not know whether it was a benefit of a calamity when my brother Willie, out of pure kindness, began taking "Chums" for me. "Chums" was at that time a chief rival of "The Boy's Own Paper", which I did not see until years later, when it bored me with its stories of public-school life, filled with incomprehensible snobbery. The line of "Chums" was adventure stories in savage lands.' |
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Century: | 1850-1899, 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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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 Boy's Own Paper |
Genre: | Fiction, Children's Lit, Ephemera, Miscellany / Anthology |
Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 11337 | |
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: | 86 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Edwin Muir, The story and the fable: An autobiography (London, 1940), p. 86, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=11337, accessed: 24 April 2024 |
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