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Record 11400

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'[Bernard] Shaw the buffoon, the joker, the iconoclast, appeared day by day in every newspaper like a living comic strip. "That jackass", my father would umph, half-teasingly, as he read the latest outrageous saying in the "Daily Mail".'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1 Jan 1929 and 31 Dec 1930
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Millom
specific address: St George's Terrace
location in dwelling: home
   
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: Nicholson
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Occupation: tailor
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: father of Norman Nicholson

 

Text Being Read:

Author: [n/a]
Title: Daily Mail
Genre: Drama, Reference / General works
Form of Text: Print: Newspaper
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 11400  
Source - Print  
  Author: Norman Nicholson
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Wednesday Early Closing
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1975
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 175
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Norman Nicholson, Wednesday Early Closing (London, 1975), p. 175, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=11400, accessed: 20 April 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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