Evidence: | 'At the beginning of each month, too, there fell to be collected from the various agents a large number of English magazines for Mr Tait's customers, as also a few copies of "Blackwood"; and at the contents of some of those I often contrived to get a surreptitious "read".' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1837 and 31 Dec 1837 | ||||||||||
Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
Time: | daytime | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Edinburgh specific address: 78 Princess Street other location: at work, Mr Tait's warehouse |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | James Glass Bertram |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1824 |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | Apprentice in a book warehouse |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | Scotland |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | [n/a] |
Title: | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine |
Genre: | Essays / Criticism, Reference / General works |
Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | read in situ at work |
Record ID: | 8181 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | James Glass Bertram | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Some memories of books, authors and events | |
Place of Publication: | Westminster | |
Date of Publication: | 1893 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 11 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | James Glass Bertram, Some memories of books, authors and events (Westminster, 1893), p. 11, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=8181, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
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