| Evidence: | 'Allen Clark, the son of Bolton textile workers, found physiology books in the public library incomprehensible. A newspaper reference to Rabelais motivated him to borrow Gargantua and Pantagruel, which was no more helpful: "the love passages in the tales were meaningless and boring and I skipped them".' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Bolton | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Allen Clarke |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1863 |
| Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
| Occupation: | son of textile workers |
| 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: | Francois Rabelais |
| Title: | Gargantua and Pantagruel |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | borrowed (public library) |
| Record ID: | 3366 | |
| 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: | 210 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 210, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3366, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
| See Allen Clarke 'Adventuring in "The Realms of Gold"', Liverpool Weekly Post (26 May, 1934) |
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