| Evidence: | "[In Lark Rise to Candleford (1947)] Flora Thompson recollected young Willie, whose family were village carpenters, being fond of reading, including poetry: 'somehow he had got posession of an old shattered copy of an anthology called A Thousand and One Gems', which he read aloud with her, sitting under nut trees at the bottom of the garden, in the 1890s." |
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| Century: | 1850-1899, 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | other location: Garden | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Willie anon |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
| Occupation: | son of carpenter |
| Religion: | unknown |
| 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: | Charles Mackay (ed) |
| Title: | A Thousand and One Gems of English Poetry |
| Genre: | Poetry, Miscellany / Anthology |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | 1867 |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 3135 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Philp Waller | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 | |
| Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
| Date of Publication: | 2006 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 62-3 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Philp Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 (Oxford, 2006), p. 62-3, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3135, accessed: 02 December 2023 | |
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