| Evidence: | 'Harry Dorrell read his brother's copy of George Moore's "A Mummer's Wife", but "I could not understand wny the lady who was undressed said to the man 'Bite me' and also got into bed with no clothes on. Mother always wore a nightdress in bed".' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Harry Dorrell |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1903 |
| Socio-economic group: | Unknown/NA |
| Occupation: | n/a |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | n/a |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | George Moore |
| Title: | A Mummer's Wife |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | borrowed (private library) borrowed from brother |
| Record ID: | 3368 | |
| 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=3368, accessed: 23 April 2024 | |
| See Harry Dorrell, 'Falling Cadence: An Autobiography of Failure' in Brunel University Library |
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