Evidence: | 'No national commentator sympathised with working-class culture so well as Wilfred Pickles, BBC newsreader and stonemason's son. But even he admitted that the hours he spent in the public library, reading Shelley, Keats, Shaw and Galsworthy, represented a desperate breakout from the stultifying provincialism of his native Halifax.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Halifax other location: public library |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Wilfred Pickles |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 13 Oct 1904 |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | stonemason's son; later newsreader |
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: | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
Title: | [unknown] |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | read in situ in public library |
Record ID: | 4560 | |
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: | 344 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 344, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4560, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
See Wilfred Pickles, 'Between You and Me' (London, 1949) pp. 29-30 |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)