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Record 4475

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'A.J. Mills, a charlady's son, recalled that his teachers made a pathetic attempt to teach an honour system but "the nearest any of us got to knowing about the honour system was to read the Magnet to find out how the other half lived".'
Century: 1900-1945
Date:
Country: n/a
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
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:A.J. Mills
Age Child (0-17)
Gender Male
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Servant
Occupation: charlady's son
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: n/a
Country of experience: n/a
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: 4475  
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: 324
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 324, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4475, accessed: 20 April 2024

Additional comments:

See A.J. Mills, "Coward or Fool", p. 19

 

 

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