Evidence: | 'John Paton was raised in the Aberdeen slums on a diet of penny dreadfuls ("good healthy stuff for an imaginative boy") and he found similar thrills in the Bible, at least in the earlier episodes. "I revelled in the same way in the bloodier scenes of the Old Testament while the moralities of the New made no contact in my mind".' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Aberdeen | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | John Paton |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1886 |
Socio-economic group: | Unknown/NA |
Occupation: | n/a |
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: | |
Title: | [penny dreadfuls] |
Genre: | Fiction, Children's Lit, penny dreadfuls |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | cheap 'penny dreadful' editions |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 1984 | |
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: | 103 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 103, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1984, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
See John Paton, 'Proletarian Pilgrimage' (London, 1935) p.41 |
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