Evidence: | '[J.M. Dent's] reading was marked by the autodidact's characteristic enthusiasm and spottiness. He knew Pilgrim's Progress, Milton, Cowper, Thomson's Seasons and Young's Night Thoughts; but...did not read Shakespeare seriously until he was nearly thirty'. |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Darlington | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Joseph Malaby Dent |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1849 |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | printer then publisher |
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: | Edward Young |
Title: | Night Thoughts |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 2768 | |
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: | 132 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 132, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=2768, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
See J.M. Dent, The House of Dent: 1888-1938, (London, 1938) |
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