| Evidence: | 'By the age of ten he had gone through E.W. Lane's three-volume translation of "The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night", Scott's Waverley novels, Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass", the adventure stories of Captain Marryat, everything of Harrison Ainsworth, and other, now forgotten, works'. |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 25 Jan 1874 and 25 Jan 1884 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Whitstable | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | William Somerset Maugham |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 25 Jan 1874 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | later writer |
| Religion: | unknown |
| 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: | Lewis Carroll (pseud.) |
| Title: | Alice Through the Looking Glass |
| Genre: | Fiction, Children's Lit |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | borrowed (private library) uncle and guardian's library |
| Record ID: | 9312 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Robert Calder | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Willie: The Life of W. Somerset Maugham | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1989 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 22 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Robert Calder, Willie: The Life of W. Somerset Maugham (London, 1989), p. 22, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=9312, accessed: 31 May 2023 | |
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