| Evidence: | 'Keir Hardie remembered that a "real turning point" of his life was his discovery of Sartor Resartus at age sixteen or seventeen. He had to read it through three times before he understood it: "I felt I was in the presence of some great power, the meaning of which I could only dimly guess at".' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
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| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | James Keir Hardie |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 15 08 1856 |
| Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
| Occupation: | later Labour MP, born in working class |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | Scotland |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Thomas Carlyle |
| Title: | Sartor Resartus |
| Genre: | Fiction, Politics, Philosophy |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 1043 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Jonathan Rose | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes | |
| Place of Publication: | New Haven | |
| Date of Publication: | 2001 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 44 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 44, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1043, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
| See Caroline Benn, 'Keir Hardie' (London 1992) pp.11-12 |
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