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Record 4319

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'By [age fifteen] [Ewan] McColl had also read Engels's The Peasant War in Germany and The Origins of the Family'.
Century: 1900-1945
Date: unknown
Country: n/a
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Ewan McColl
Age Child (0-17)
Gender Male
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Unknown/NA
Occupation: n/a
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: n/a
Country of experience: n/a
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: Second hand

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Friedrich Engels
Title: The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
Genre: History, Social Science, Politics
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 4319  
Source - Print  
  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: 316
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 316, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4319, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

See Ewan McColl, 'Theatre of Action', pp208-10 - no further ref traceable

 

 

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