Evidence: | 'One day, however, I made a discovery. I could read myself! I was four years old now... and while sprawling on the floor with a comic open at the pictures of Weary Willie and Tired Tim, or Dreamy Daniel, or Casey Court, or the Mulberry Flatites, I found that the captions under suddenly began to read themselves out to me.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1907 and 31 Dec 1907 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Newcastle location in dwelling: home, sprawled on floor |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Jack Common |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1903 |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
Occupation: | son of locomotive fireman |
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: | [n/a] |
Title: | [comic paper] |
Genre: | Fiction, Children's Lit, Ephemera |
Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 11482 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Jack Common | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Kiddar's Luck | |
Place of Publication: | Newcastle | |
Date of Publication: | 1975 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 26 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jack Common, Kiddar's Luck (Newcastle, 1975), p. 26, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=11482, accessed: 27 April 2024 |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)