Evidence: | 'In the 1920s Janet Hitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshlves of an orphanage, which included a huge collection of "drunken father deathbed conversion" stories (Christie's Old Organ, 'The Little Match Girl', A Peep behind the Scenes), as well as everything by Dickens,old volumes of Punch and the Spectator and The Life of Ruskin. "My undigested reading made me look at the world with mid-Victorian eyes", she recalled'. |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
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Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | other location: orphanage | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Janet Hitchman |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Unknown/NA |
Occupation: | n/a |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | n/a |
Country of experience: | n/a |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | W.G. Collingwood |
Title: | The Life of Ruskin |
Genre: | Biography |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | borrowed (institution library) orphanage library |
Record ID: | 2455 | |
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: | 121 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 121, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=2455, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
See Janet Hitchman, 'The King of the Barbareens' (London, 1960) pp.113-14 |
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