Evidence: | Elizabeth Segel, in "'As the Twig is Bent ...': Gender and Childhood Reading": "[Melvyn Bragg] became 'hooked' on Alcott after having picked up at a seaside bookshop Jo's Boys ... 'I read it countless times,' he remembered, 'and the pleasure I found in it ... enabled me to hurdle the terrible barrier presented by Little Women, which I sought out at the library on the hunt for anything else by Louisa May Alcott ... For Little Women, Miss Alcott announced, firmly, on the title page, was A Story for Girls. Yet I read it.'" |
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Reader: | Melvyn Bragg |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | n/a |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | n/a |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Louisa May Alcott |
Title: | Jo's Boys |
Genre: | Fiction, Children's Lit |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 5067 | |
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Author: | n/a | |
Editor: | Elizabeth A. and Patrocinio P. Flynn and Schweickart | |
Title: | Gender and Reading: Essays on Readers, Texts, and Contexts | |
Place of Publication: | Baltimore | |
Date of Publication: | 1992 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 177 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Elizabeth A. and Patrocinio P. Flynn and Schweickart (ed.), Gender and Reading: Essays on Readers, Texts, and Contexts (Baltimore, 1992), p. 177, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5067, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
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