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Record Number: 3139


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

"In 1932 Thomas Burke paid tribute to T. P.'s Weekly for having fired his imagination and given direction to his life ... 'I discovered literature by picking up a copy of T. P.'s Weekly in a tea-shop ...'"

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

unknown

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: London
other location: tea-shop

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Thomas Burke

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Unknown/NA

Occupation:

unknown

Religion:

unknown

Country of Origin:

unknown

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

T. P.'s Weekly

Genre:

Other religious, Fiction, Essays / Criticism, History, Poetry, Philosophy, Science, Miscellany / Anthology

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

read in situ


Source Information:

Record ID:

3139

Source:

Print

Author:

Philp Waller

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

2006

Vol:

n/a

Page:

88

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Philp Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 (Oxford, 2006), p. 88, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=3139, accessed: 28 March 2024


Additional Comments:

Quotation taken from David Robinson, Chaplin: His Life and Art (1985).

   
   
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