Evidence: | 'In the lower part of the newsagent's windows were the journals that catered for me. By would be reformers they were lumped together as "penny dreadfuls". One was "Deadwood Dick" -a cowboy who was always bumping off people in Deadman's Gulch or Gallow's Ravine, The reformers told me that my mind would become brutalised by reading Penny Dreadfuls... Besides "Deadwood Dick" in the shop window there was "Bronco Bill", with stories of a similar type. And there was "Jack Wright".' |
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Century: | 1850-1899, 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Joseph Stamper |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
Occupation: | ironmoulder, later writer |
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 |
Author: | [unknown] |
Title: | Jack Wright |
Genre: | Fiction, Children's Lit, Ephemera, penny dreadful |
Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 11364 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Joseph Stamper | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | So long ago | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1960 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 161-162 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Joseph Stamper, So long ago (London, 1960), p. 161-162, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=11364, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
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