| Evidence: | I moved to Marie Corelli and there I found a book of newspaper articles called 'Free Opinions'. The type was large. The words were easy, rather contemptibly so. I read and then stopped in anger. Marie Corelli had insulted me. She was against popular education, against schools, against Public libraries and said that common people like us made the books dirty because we never washed, and that we infected them with disease. |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 16 Dec 1910 and 1 Jan 1918 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
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| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Victor Sawdon Pritchett |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 16 Dec 1900 |
| Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
| Occupation: | son of itinerant salesman |
| Religion: | Christain |
| 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: | Marie Corelli |
| Title: | Free Opinions |
| Genre: | Essays / Criticism |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book, Newspaper |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | borrowed (private library) from father's study |
| Record ID: | 3391 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | V.S. Pritchett | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | A Cab at the Door. An autobiography: early years | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1968 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 107 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | V.S. Pritchett, A Cab at the Door. An autobiography: early years (London, 1968), p. 107, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3391, accessed: 20 April 2024 | |
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