| Evidence: | 'She did take to reading me The Little Matchgirl rather more frequently as time went on. Maybe she hoped that I would learn to read as a means of avoiding that particular story, but I have a nasty suspicion that it was done as a means of providing light relief for herself, because The Little Match Girl always made me cry.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 14 Dec 1926 and 1 Jan 1929 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Rosemary Sutcliff |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 14 Dec 1920 |
| Socio-economic group: | n/a |
| Occupation: | Artist/Writer (eventually) |
| Religion: | unknown |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | Her mother was reading to her |
| Author: | Hans Christian Andersen |
| Title: | Little Match Girl, The |
| Genre: | Fiction, History, Children's Lit |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 20103 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Rosemary Sutcliff | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Blue Remembered Hills: A Recollection | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1993 [1983] | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 54 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Rosemary Sutcliff, Blue Remembered Hills: A Recollection (London, 1993 [1983]), p. 54, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20103, accessed: 31 May 2023 | |
| Dates of reading are approximate. |
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