Evidence: | 'Dickens ... recalled that as a schoolboy he used to buy the Terrific Register, "making myself unspeakably miserable, and frightening my very wits out of my head, for the small charge of a penny weekly; which, considering that there was an illustration to every number in which there was always a pool of blood, and at least one body, was cheap."' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
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Place: | city: London | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Charles Dickens |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | n/a |
Date of Birth | 7 Feb 1812 |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder Schoolboy, son of a clerk |
Occupation: | n/a |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | n/a |
Country of experience: | n/a |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | |
Title: | The Terrific Register |
Genre: | Miscellany / Anthology |
Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 29100 | |
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Author: | Richard Altick | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900 | |
Place of Publication: | Columbus, OH | |
Date of Publication: | 1998 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 321 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Richard Altick, The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900 (Columbus, OH, 1998), p. 321, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=29100, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
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