Record Number: 4850

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

" ... [Mrs Layton (b. 1855)] remembers, when she was in service, and about sixteen, being lent some 'trashy books' by the servant next door: narratives which came out in weeekly episodes and which created a compulsive desire in her ..."

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

1871

Country:

n/a

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Mrs Layton

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

1855

Socio-Economic Group:

Servant

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

n/a

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

popular serial fiction

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

borrowed (other)

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Source Information:

Record ID:

4850

Source:

Print

Author:

Kate Flint

Editor:

n/a

Title:

The Woman Reader: 1837-1914

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

1993

Vol:

n/a

Page:

234

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Kate Flint, The Woman Reader: 1837-1914 (Oxford, 1993), p. 234, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=4850, accessed: 28 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Citation of source of anecdote, p.234 n.177, gives reader's name as Mrs Layard.