Evidence: | 'As our roads home from school lay for a considerable distance in the same direction, Tommy Davies...and I generally walked home together, making numerous stoppages along the way to read, admire and compare the playbills of the different theatres. One afternoon in the latter end of the month of October we were going home, when our attention was forcibly arrested by a bill of an unusually attracive character. It was a very large, very highly coloured and very profusely illustrated bill...' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Oct 1840 and 31 Oct 1840 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | afternoon | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London other location: street |
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Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Thomas Wright |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-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) |
With friend Tommy Davies |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | [n/a] |
Title: | [playbill] |
Genre: | Drama |
Form of Text: | Print: Broadsheet, Poster, playbill |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | read in situ |
Record ID: | 7838 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Thomas Wright | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Some habits and customs of the working classes | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1867 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 155-156 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Thomas Wright, Some habits and customs of the working classes (London, 1867), p. 155-156, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=7838, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
probably 1840 |
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