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Record 4189

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
: 'Father and mother are sitting by the fire, the one reading the Evening News [Bolton?], the other mending stockings.'
Century: 1850-1899
Date: Between 1 Jan 1874 and 31 Dec 1900
Country: England
Time: evening
Place: city: Radcliffe
county: Lancashire
location in dwelling: Fireside
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader: Barlow
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Unknown/NA
Occupation: n/a
Religion: Methodist
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: [Bolton?] Evening News
Genre: Ephemera, Local newspaper
Form of Text: Print: Newspaper
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 4189  
Source - Print  
  Author: Joseph Barlow Brooks
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Lancashire Bred: An autobiography
  Place of Publication: Oxford
  Date of Publication: 1951
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 109
  Additional comments: Brooks was born in 1874.

Citation: Joseph Barlow Brooks, Lancashire Bred: An autobiography (Oxford, 1951), p. 109, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4189, accessed: 02 May 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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