| Evidence: | Henry Mayhew interviews 'educated' costermongers who read fiction aloud to groups of costermongers in the courts they inhabit; long account of the comments made by illiterate costermongers when cheap serials are read to them, comments on the story lines they like, characters and illustrations; reading of G.W.M. Reynolds's "Mysteries" and Edward Lloyd's penny bloods |
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| Century: | 1800-1849, 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1840 and 31 Dec 1855 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | evening: summer's evening | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: London other location: in the courts they inhabit |
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| Reader: | anon |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
| Occupation: | educated costermonger |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | n/a |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
family, friends, workmates, costermongers in the courts they inhabit |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Edward Lloyd |
| Title: | [various titles published by Lloyd] |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | reading group |
| Record ID: | 1259 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Henry Mayhew | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | London Labour and the London Poor | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1861 | |
| Vol: | 1 | |
| Page: | 25-26 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor (London, 1861), 1, p. 25-26, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1259, accessed: 03 December 2023 | |
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