Evidence: | 'Thomas Jones recalled that his mother, a Rhymney straw-hat maker, "was fifty before she read a novel and to her dying day she had not completely grasped the nature of fiction or of drama". When she read Tom Jones, "she believed every word of it and could not conceive how a man could sit down and invent the story of Squire Allworthy and Sophia and Tom out of his head". |
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Reader: | Jones |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | straw hat maker |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | Wales |
Country of experience: | n/a |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Henry Fielding |
Title: | Tom Jones |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 1975 | |
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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: | 97 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 97, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1975, accessed: 25 April 2024 |
See Thomas Jones, 'Rhymney Memories', pp.42-3. |
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