Evidence: | 'Louis Battye, the spastic child of former millworkers, was at first utterly bewildered by the Gem and Magnet, because he was being educated at home and had no school experience of any kind... "But I persevered and eventually familiarised myself with the conventions of the form... I continued to read the Gem and Magnet religiously until I was fourteen or fifteen, and from them I received what might be called the Schoolboy's Code"... [which] enabled him to get along with other children when he was sent to Heswall Hospital'. |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1923 and 31 Dec 1938 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Louis Battye |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1923 |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
Occupation: | millworkers' son |
Religion: | n/a |
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: | Frank Richards |
Title: | [stories in the Gem] |
Genre: | Fiction, Children's Lit, Ephemera |
Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 4481 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Jonathan Rose | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes | |
Place of Publication: | New Haven | |
Date of Publication: | 2001 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 329 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 329, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4481, accessed: 29 April 2024 |
See Louis Battye, 'Little Nut Tree' pp. 97-8, 136. |
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