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Record 5141

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
"John Clare listed the material which he encountered as he learnt his letters in his Northamptonshire parish as the nineteenth century commenced: "'About now all my stock of learning was gleaned from the Sixpenny Romances of 'Cinderella', 'Little Red Riding Hood', 'Jack and the bean Stalk', 'Zig Zag', 'Prince Cherry', etc and great was the pleasure, pain, or supprise increased by allowing them authenticity, for I firmly believed every page I read ...'"
Century: 1700-1799, 1800-1849
Date: unknown
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
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:John Clare
Age Child (0-17)
Gender Male
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Labourer (agricultural)
Occupation: n/a
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

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: Prince Cherry
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Unknown, "Sixpenny Romance"
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 5141  
Source - Print  
  Author: David Vincent
  Editor: n/a
  Title: The Rise of Mass Literacy: Reading and Writing in Moderrn Europe
  Place of Publication: Oxford
  Date of Publication: 2000
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 119
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: David Vincent, The Rise of Mass Literacy: Reading and Writing in Moderrn Europe (Oxford, 2000), p. 119, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5141, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

Quotation from J. Clare, "Sketches in the Life of John Clare", in E. Robinson, ed., John Clare's Autobiographical Writings (Oxford, 1983) 5.

 

 

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