| Evidence: | ?Excepting "Pilgrim?s Progress", "Gulliver?s Travels" and the "Arabian Nights", I saw and read none of the books which entrance young minds. The religious meaning of the first, the satirical meaning of the second, and the doubtful meaning of the third were, of course, not understood. The story was the great thing ? the travels of Christian, the troubles of Gulliver, the adventures of Aladdin?? |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Cheltenham | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | William Edwin Adams |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | Feb 1832 |
| Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
| Occupation: | Son of a plasterer, apprentice printer and journalist later |
| 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: | Jonathan Swift |
| Title: | Gulliver's Travels |
| Genre: | Fiction, Geography / Travel |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 7355 | |
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| Author: | William Edwin Adams | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Memoirs of a Social Atom | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1903 | |
| Vol: | 1 | |
| Page: | 103 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | William Edwin Adams, Memoirs of a Social Atom (London, 1903), 1, p. 103, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=7355, accessed: 21 March 2023 | |
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