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James Boswell : Life of Johnson
'Jack Common recalled that his mother brought him a secondhand and severely abridged "Life of Johnson" for 1d., and he had to read it several times before he even partially absorbed it'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Jack Common Print: Book
[n/a] : Girls' Own Paper
'...in one matter father and son were united. We developed a mutual love of comic papers, and together taught ourselves to read them. He could read after a fashion before I arrived, it's true, for once he'd struggled all the way through a serial in the "Girls' Own Paper" called "The Shepard's Fairy"... He always sat in the hard chair, right-hand side of the kitchen range, with his back to the window, his sleeves rolled up and the paper held firmly... Then being set, off he'd go into the latest crime of Jasper Todd, the sinister landlord of the Red Inn, or Spring-heeled Jack, or the ingenious inventions of George Gale, the Flying Detective... we went on until every item in "Chips", "Comic Cuts", "Lot o' Fun" and the "Butterfly" had been dealt with -for that week.'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Serial / periodical
[n/a] : Chips
'...in one matter father and son were united. We developed a mutual love of comic papers, and together taught ourselves to read them. He could read after a fashion before I arrived, it's true, for once he'd struggled all the way through a serial in the "Girls' Own Paper" called "The Shepard's Fairy"... He always sat in the hard chair, right-hand side of the kitchen range, with his back to the window, his sleeves rolled up and the paper held firmly... Then being set, off he'd go into the latest crime of Jasper Todd, the sinister landlord of the Red Inn, or Spring-heeled Jack, or the ingenious inventions of George Gale, the Flying Detective... we went on until every item in "Chips", "Comic Cuts", "Lot o' Fun" and the "Butterfly" had been dealt with -for that week.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Serial / periodical
[n/a] : Comic Cuts
'...in one matter father and son were united. We developed a mutual love of comic papers, and together taught ourselves to read them. He could read after a fashion before I arrived, it's true, for once he'd struggled all the way through a serial in the "Girls' Own Paper" called "The Shepard's Fairy"... He always sat in the hard chair, right-hand side of the kitchen range, with his back to the window, his sleeves rolled up and the paper held firmly... Then being set, off he'd go into the latest crime of Jasper Todd, the sinister landlord of the Red Inn, or Spring-heeled Jack, or the ingenious inventions of George Gale, the Flying Detective... we went on until every item in "Chips", "Comic Cuts", "Lot o' Fun" and the "Butterfly" had been dealt with -for that week.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Serial / periodical
[n/a] : Lot o' Fun
'...in one matter father and son were united. We developed a mutual love of comic papers, and together taught ourselves to read them. He could read after a fashion before I arrived, it's true, for once he'd struggled all the way through a serial in the "Girls' Own Paper" called "The Shepard's Fairy"... He always sat in the hard chair, right-hand side of the kitchen range, with his back to the window, his sleeves rolled up and the paper held firmly... Then being set, off he'd go into the latest crime of Jasper Todd, the sinister landlord of the Red Inn, or Spring-heeled Jack, or the ingenious inventions of George Gale, the Flying Detective... we went on until every item in "Chips", "Comic Cuts", "Lot o' Fun" and the "Butterfly" had been dealt with -for that week.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Serial / periodical
[n/a] : Butterfly
'...in one matter father and son were united. We developed a mutual love of comic papers, and together taught ourselves to read them. He could read after a fashion before I arrived, it's true, for once he'd struggled all the way through a serial in the "Girls' Own Paper" called "The Shepard's Fairy"... He always sat in the hard chair, right-hand side of the kitchen range, with his back to the window, his sleeves rolled up and the paper held firmly... Then being set, off he'd go into the latest crime of Jasper Todd, the sinister landlord of the Red Inn, or Spring-heeled Jack, or the ingenious inventions of George Gale, the Flying Detective... we went on until every item in "Chips", "Comic Cuts", "Lot o' Fun" and the "Butterfly" had been dealt with -for that week.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Serial / periodical
[n/a] : [comic paper]
'One day, however, I made a discovery. I could read myself! I was four years old now... and while sprawling on the floor with a comic open at the pictures of Weary Willie and Tired Tim, or Dreamy Daniel, or Casey Court, or the Mulberry Flatites, I found that the captions under suddenly began to read themselves out to me.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Jack Common Print: Serial / periodical
[n/a] : Bible
[Given 'a handsome and well-illustrated volume called the Prize Bible' by his grandmother] '...the surprise they got when I actually read the thing, right through, cover to cover, as if it was "Chips" or "Herewald the Wake"... Here on a wet Sunday morning was this handsome volume, leather-bound, of clear bold type and frequent illustrations -I'd look at the pictures. They were gawdy and full of action, quite a lot of them. Look at the priests of Dagon with their blood-splashed knives; Jael creeping into the tent of Sisera; Egyptian chariots overwhelmed by the Red Sea; Judas gloating over his pieces of silver like a carroty-headed Quilp...You simply had to read of these matters; and if the narrative didn't always come up to the quality of the illustrations, when it did you had a story which stayed in your imangination and gave it something to glow with. I read on, session after session, past all the boring bits and finished it at last.'
