Evidence: | '[Joseph Keating's] initiation into modern literature came when his brother introduced him to Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat: "I had thought that only Smollett and Dickens could make a reader laugh; and I was surprised to find that a man who was actually living could write in such a genuinely humorous way'. |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | Wales | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Joseph Keating |
Age | Unknown |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1871 |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
Occupation: | collier |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | Wales |
Country of experience: | Wales |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Jerome K. Jerome |
Title: | Three Men in a Boat |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | borrowed (other) from brother |
Record ID: | 2480 | |
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: | 121-2 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 121-2, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=2480, accessed: 25 April 2024 |
See Joseph Keating 'My Struggle for Life' (London, 1916) |
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