Evidence: | ?This period gave me unnumbered hours for reading, and I devoured everything that came in my way, novels, histories, travels, even "The lives of the Stoics". There was no such thing as a free library then, so enough money was scraped up for a subscription one, the first volume borrowed being Dickens?s newly published "Bleak House".? |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | other location: at work | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Thomas Catling |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 23 Sep 1838 |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
Occupation: | Apprentice compositor at newspaper (later journalist) |
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: | Charles Dickens |
Title: | Bleak House |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | Borrowed (circulating library) |
Record ID: | 7000 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Thomas Catling | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | My Life's Pilgrimage | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1911 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 26 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Thomas Catling, My Life's Pilgrimage (London, 1911), p. 26, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=7000, accessed: 23 April 2024 |
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