Evidence: | "John Clare listed the material which he encountered as he learnt his letters in his Northamptonshire parish as the nineteenth century commenced:
"'About now all my stock of learning was gleaned from the Sixpenny Romances of 'Cinderella', 'Little Red Riding Hood', 'Jack and the bean Stalk', 'Zig Zag', 'Prince Cherry', etc and great was the pleasure, pain, or supprise increased by allowing them authenticity, for I firmly believed every page I read ...'" |
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Century: | 1700-1799, 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | John Clare |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (agricultural) |
Occupation: | n/a |
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: | |
Title: | Little Red Riding Hood |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Unknown, "Sixpenny Romance" |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 5138 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | David Vincent | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | The Rise of Mass Literacy: Reading and Writing in Moderrn Europe | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 2000 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 119 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | David Vincent, The Rise of Mass Literacy: Reading and Writing in Moderrn Europe (Oxford, 2000), p. 119, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5138, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
Quotation from J. Clare, "Sketches in the Life of John Clare", in E. Robinson, ed., John Clare's Autobiographical Writings (Oxford, 1983) 5. |
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