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1450-1945

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Record 20691

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'There, on warm weekend days, I would sit and read in a peaceful arbour where trees and shrubbery muffled the noise of traffic'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: From: 31 Jan 1944
Country: England
Time: daytime
Place: city: London
specific address: St John's Wood churchyard
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Ralph Glasser
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 3 Apr 1916
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: economist
Religion: Jewish
Country of origin: England, of Lithuanian heritage
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: n/a
Genre: Unknown
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 20691  
Source - Print  
  Author: Ralph Glasser
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Gorbals Voices, Siren Songs
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1990
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 121
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Ralph Glasser, Gorbals Voices, Siren Songs (London, 1990), p. 121, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20691, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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