Evidence: | Jonathan Rose, "How Historians Study Reader Response: or, What did Jo Think of Bleak House?": " ... some of ... [Dickens's readers] found it difficult to share his anguish over the hardships of the clerkly classes. Growing up in the depressed steelworks town of Merthyr Tydfil between the world wars, some poor schoolboys were a bit baffled when their teacher read them A Christmas Carol: ' ... we never could understand why it was considered why Bob Cratchit was hard done by -- a good job, we all thought he had.'"
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 11 11 1918 and 01 09 1939 | ||||||||||
Country: | Wales | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Merthyr Tydfil other location: school |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | anon |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Unknown |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Teacher |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | n/a |
Country of experience: | Wales |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
schoolboys |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Charles Dickens |
Title: | A Christmas Carol |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 5222 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | n/a | |
Editor: | John O. and Robert L. Jordan and Patten | |
Title: | Literature in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century British Publishing and Reading Practices | |
Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
Date of Publication: | 1995 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 208 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | John O. and Robert L. Jordan and Patten (ed.), Literature in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century British Publishing and Reading Practices (Cambridge, 1995), p. 208, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5222, accessed: 24 April 2024 |
Quotation from R. L. Lee, The Town That Died (London, 1975) 88. |
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