Evidence: | 'It is equally possible for the same reader to adopt different frames for the same story, relishing it on one level while seeing through the claptrap on another. In his youth Aneurin Bevan enjoyed the Magnet and Gem surreptitiously (his father forbade them) and devoured H. Rider Haggard at the Tredegar Workmen's Institute Library. But during the 'Phoney War' he lambasted the government's stupidly optimistic predictions in precisely the same terms: "Immediately on the outbreak of war, England was given over to the mental level of the Boys' Own Paper and the Magnet..." In 1944 Bevan freely admitted that "William le Queux, John Buchan and Phillips Oppenheim have always been favourites of ours in our off-moments. Part of their charm lies in their juvenile attitude".' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | Wales | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Tredegar specific address: Workmen's Institute Library other location: Library |
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Reader: | Aneurin Bevan |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 15 Nov 1897 |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
Occupation: | miner's son, later Labour politician |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | Wales |
Country of experience: | Wales |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | H. Rider Haggard |
Title: | [unknown] |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | read in situ read at Tredegar Workmen's Institute Library |
Record ID: | 4549 | |
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: | 332 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 332, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4549, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
See Michael Foot, Aneurin Bevan (London, 1962) Vol I, pp. 22, 307, 395 |
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