Evidence: | 'Father was well read in politics and in the nineteenth century novelists, Dickens and Trollope being his favourites. But his reading nourished the sour scepticism that possesed him [and he suggested to Glasser that reading was a waste of time]'. |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: 1 Oct 1939 | ||||||||||
Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Glasgow | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Mr Glasser |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
Occupation: | factory worker |
Religion: | Jewish |
Country of origin: | Lithuania |
Country of experience: | Scotland |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | father of Ralph Glasser |
Author: | Charles Dickens |
Title: | [unknown] |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 20304 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Ralph Glasser | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Growing up in the Gorbals | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1986 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 33 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Ralph Glasser, Growing up in the Gorbals (London, 1986), p. 33, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20304, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
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