Evidence: | 'From a classroom library of perhaps two dozen volumes [Richard Hillyer] borrowed one by Tennyson, simply because it had 'Poet Laureate' printed on the title page: the coloured words flashed out and entranced my fancy... my dormant imagination opened like a flower in the sun".' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | county: Northamptonshire | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Richard Hillyer |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1900 |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (agricultural) |
Occupation: | cowman's son |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Alfred Lord Tennyson |
Title: | n/a |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | borrowed (institution library) school library |
Record ID: | 2486 | |
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: | 127 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 127, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=2486, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
See Richard Hillyer, 'Country Boy' p.29 |
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