Evidence: | 'There was another impression, almost as horrible, but this time it was caused by an illustration, not a story. Sutherland sometimes had sent to him by a cousin in Leith a weekly paper called, I think, "The Police News", a record of brutal crimes. He left it lying in the kitchen one day, and with my usual hypnotised interest I went across to take it up. On the cover was a picture of a powerful man standing in his shirt sleeves with an axe raised above his head... My father snatched up the paper as soon as I put my hand out for it, crammed it into his pocket, and said sternly, "That's no for thee!"'. |
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Century: | 1850-1899, 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Garth | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Edwin Muir |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 15 May 1887 |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | farmer's son, later poet |
Religion: | Protestant |
Country of origin: | Scotland |
Country of experience: | Scotland |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | [n/a] |
Title: | The Police News |
Genre: | Law, Ephemera |
Form of Text: | Print: Newspaper |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | Found |
Record ID: | 11336 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Edwin Muir | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | The story and the fable: An autobiography | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1940 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 84-85 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Edwin Muir, The story and the fable: An autobiography (London, 1940), p. 84-85, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=11336, accessed: 20 April 2024 |
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