| Evidence: | 'Elizabeth Goodman, who in the ordinary way read only the Bible and a popular comic, "Ally Sloper's Weekly", at Christmas time "flung into the festooned disorder of the nursery a pile of Christmas numbers, and thence forward walked with us, for a week or two, in a world of pure romance."' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1870 and 31 Dec 1879 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reading Group: | Elizabeth Goodman (nursemaid) and Mew children |
| Age | Unknown |
| Gender | Unknown |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Unknown/NA |
| Occupation: | n/a |
| Religion: | Church of England |
| Country of origin: | n/a |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | |
| Title: | Christmas numbers of magazines |
| Genre: | Fiction, Ephemera, Miscellany / Anthology |
| Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 8383 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Penelope Fitzgerald | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Charlotte Mew and Her Friends | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1984 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 18 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Penelope Fitzgerald, Charlotte Mew and Her Friends (London, 1984), p. 18, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=8383, accessed: 02 May 2024 | |
| Quotation from Charlotte Mew, 'An Old Servant', Charlotte Mew: Collected Poems and Prose, ed. Val Warner (London, 1982) p.401; this an autobiographical article written for periodical publication, and used by Fitzgerald as a reliable source. |
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