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Fraser
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: The Times
'Dear Mr Blackwood, I see in "The Times" that you were present at the dinner of the Royal Literary Fund."
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Newspaper
Frank Richards : [stories in the Magnet]
[Lionel Fraser dreamt unfulfilledly of Oxbridge]: 'Whatever resentment he may have felt was mollified by the Gem and Magnet, which "brought brightness into my rather humdrum existence, giving me an insight into the hitherto unknown life of upper-class children". Making sense of the school slang and rituals was not easy but Tom Merry and Harry Wharton "became my idols and I longed to be like them".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lionel Fraser Print: Serial / periodical
Frank Richards : [stories in the Gem]
[Lionel Fraser dreamt unfulfilledly of Oxbridge]: 'Whatever resentment he may have felt was mollified by the Gem and Magnet, which "brought brightness into my rather humdrum existence, giving me an insight into the hitherto unknown life of upper-class children". Making sense of the school slang and rituals was not easy but Tom Merry and Harry Wharton "became my idols and I longed to be like them".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lionel Fraser Print: Serial / periodical
Mrs. Mary Beeton : [cookery book]
Mrs Hugh Fraser on her son (having just described his Chinese nursemaid's indulgent treatment of him): 'He retained his fine appetite till he was five or six years old. Then I found him one night slipping "Mrs. Beeton's Cookery Book" under his pillow. On my asking the motive of his selection he replied, "It is nice to read about the plum puddings even if you can't always get them."'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book
: Bible - Book of Isaiah
'Janet Fraser . . . had gone out to the fields with a young female companion, and sat down to read the Bible . . . [Going to get a drink of water, she left] her Bible open at the place where she had been reading . . . the 34th chapter of Isaiah, beginning "My sword shall be bathed in heaven" . . . . On returning she found a patch of something like blood covering the very text. In great surprise, she carried the book home, where a young man tasted the substance with his tongue, and found it of a saltless or insipid flavour. On the two succeeding Sundays, while the same girl was reading her Bible in the open air, similar blotches of matter, like blood,fell upon the leaves. She did not perceive it in the act of falling till it was about an inch from the book.'
