Evidence: | 'In [Ashington Mechanics' Institute] library [Chester Armstrong] discovered a "new world", a "larger environment" in Defoe, Marryat, Fenimore Cooper, Dickens and Jules Verne.' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Ashington specific address: Mechanics' Institute Library other location: Mechanics' Institute Library |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Chester Armstrong |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1868 |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
Occupation: | miner |
Religion: | n/a |
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: | James Fenimore Cooper |
Title: | n/a |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | borrowed (institution library) Ashington Mechanics' Institute Library |
Record ID: | 1788 | |
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: | 74 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 74, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1788, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
See Chester Amrstrong, 'Pilgrimage from Nenthead'. |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)