Evidence: | 'I am not ashamed to confess that during those weeks of imprisonment I too wept both by day and by night; not loudly or clamorously, but silently and with an intensity of misery that wasted my strength and filled my brain with hideous thoughts. The first library book issued to me was "David Copperfield"; and with the incipient ego-centrism of the budding criminal I imagined I could detect similarities between Dickens's early experiences and my own. For many nights I cried myself to sleep with "David Copperfield" hugged close, as if in him I had found a fellow sufferer.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Sep 1901 and 30 Sep 1901 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | evening | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Reading county: Berkshire specific address: Reading County Gaol other location: in his prison cell |
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Reader: | Stuart Wood [pseud?] |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 27 Feb 1885 |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
Occupation: | son of master craftsman, but habitual criminal |
Religion: | family Methodist but becomes athiest |
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: | David Copperfield |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | borrowed (institution library) prison library |
Record ID: | 12644 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Stuart Wood | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Shades of the prison house: A personal memoir | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1932 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 32 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Stuart Wood, Shades of the prison house: A personal memoir (London, 1932), p. 32, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12644, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
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