| Evidence: | 'On the wall at the side of the chimney Dad put up the bookshelves which Dodie began to fill with secondhand penny books. Over the years we had Conrad and Wodehouse, Eric Linklater and Geoffrey Farnol, Edgar Wallace, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, Mark Twain, Arnold Bennett, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Buchan, and a host of others, good, bad and awful, and we read the lot, some of them over and over.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1930 and 31 Dec 1950 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: London | ||||||||||
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| Reading Group: | family of Rose Gamble |
| Age | Unknown |
| Gender | Unknown |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
| Occupation: | mother/wife a cleaner, father/husband an irregularly employed seaman |
| 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: | n/a |
| Author: | Pelham Grenville Wodehouse |
| Title: | [unknown] |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | second hand penny book |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 11422 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Rose Gamble | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Chelsea Child | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1979 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 143 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Rose Gamble, Chelsea Child (London, 1979), p. 143, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=11422, accessed: 31 March 2023 | |
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