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Record 4474

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'For Paul Fletcher, a colliery winder's son in a Lancashire mining town, the Magnet's appeal lay precisely in that "code of schoolboy honour". "Although I never realised it at the time, it proved to influence me more about right or wrong than any other book", he recalled, "And that includes the Bible". After all, the Greyfriars code "was as well defined as the scriptures [were] nebulous".'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1 Jan 1920 and 31 Dec 1930
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: county: Lancashire
   
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:Paul Fletcher
Age Child (0-17)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1912
Socio-economic group: Labourer (non-agricultural)
Occupation: colliery winder's son
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

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Frank Richards
Title: [stories in the Magnet]
Genre: Fiction, Children's Lit, Ephemera
Form of Text: Print: Serial / periodical
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 4474  
Source - Print  
  Author: Jonathan Rose
  Editor: n/a
  Title: The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
  Place of Publication: New Haven
  Date of Publication: 2001
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 323
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 323, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4474, accessed: 18 April 2024

Additional comments:

See Paul Fletcher, 'The Clatter of Clogs: Life in Lancashire During the Twenties as Seen Through The Eyes of a Boy' (Bolton, 1972) pp. 102-4

 

 

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