| Evidence: | 'The new faculty had to be fed, however, and my eye fastened on all printed matter. I read passages in the Daily Chronicle which had just replaced the Daily Mail in our home, as a result of my father's increasing rancour towards the governing class ...'
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between Mar 1900 and May 1900 | ||||||||||
| Country: | UK | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: London | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Richard Church |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | n/a |
| Date of Birth | 26 Mar 1893 |
| Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder Father was post office clerk. Mother primary school teacher. |
| Occupation: | In adulthood, writer and editor |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | UK |
| Country of experience: | UK |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | |
| Title: | The Daily Chronicle |
| Genre: | n/a |
| Form of Text: | Print: Newspaper |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | n/a |
| Record ID: | 29379 | |
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| Author: | Richard Church | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Over the Bridge | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1955 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 96-7 | |
| Additional comments: | After acquiring his "first pair of spectacles" Church recounts how he became "a bookworm". |
| Citation: | Richard Church, Over the Bridge (London, 1955), p. 96-7, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=29379, accessed: 29 April 2024 | |
| Church relates the political awakening that comes from the experience of reading about the Boer War: 'I remember reading the war news in this Daily Chronicle and feeling my mind rising up inside me like a cat waking up from sleep.' p 97 |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)