Evidence: | 'At the close of the nineteenth century, on a farm in Derbyshire Peak District, Robinson Crusoe was read aloud every winter and never palled on the audience. As Alison Uttley remembered, it was even more popular than Pilgrim's Progress: "Christian on his journey met giants and evil men, but Robinson Crusoe fought against the elements, the wind and rain, lightning and tempest, droughts and floods. He lived a life they could understand, catching the food he ate, sowing and reaping corn, making bread, taming beasts... The family shared the life of Robinson Crusoe, hoping and fearing with him, experiencing his sorrows..."' |
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Century: | 1850-1899, 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1895 and 31 Dec 1900 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | county: Derbyshire Peak District | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Listener: | Alison Uttley |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 1884 |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | farmer's daughter, later writer |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
family |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Daniel Defoe |
Title: | Robinson Crusoe |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 2366 | |
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: | 110 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 110, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=2366, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
See Alison Uttley, 'The Farm on the Hill' (London, 1941) Ch.3 |
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