Evidence: | 'Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware of the subversive potential of great literature. Following a Home Office directive to examine prisoners' books, the chaplain confiscated a volume of Shelley, though not before Hughes had a chance to read and discuss it. The padre also apparently removed Tristram Shandy from the prison library: Hughes found it whilst cleaning the chaplain's rookm and had read it on the sly... In More's Utopia he discovered a radical rethinking of criume and punishment. The World Set Free, in which HG Wells predicted the devastation of nuclear war, naturally spoke to his antiwar activism, and he was greatly impressed by the Quaker idealism in George Fox's journal, a biography of William Penn and Walt Whitman's poems.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1914 and 1918 | ||||||||||
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Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | other location: prison | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Emrys Daniel Hughes |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1894 |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
Occupation: | son of miner |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | Wales |
Country of experience: | n/a |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Walt Whitman |
Title: | n/a |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | borrowed (other) Prison library |
Record ID: | 1380 | |
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: | 51-2 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 51-2, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1380, accessed: 23 April 2024 |
See Emrys Daniel Hughes, "Welsh Rebel" in The National Library of Scotland |
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