Evidence: | '[Charlie] Lahr lent [Bonar] Thompson Andre Gide and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man". "It was wonderful for me to feel that I belonged to the elect who had read these giants of the future", wrote Thompson, who credited Lahr with introducing him to "writers of whom I should not otherwised have heard until years later". The difficulty was that "As soon as authors did become well known, Charlie had done with them. He felt, I suppose, that they had been bought over, or had taken to writing for the mob, else why were they popular with the wrong kind of readers?".' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Bonar Thompson |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
Occupation: | railway worker and itinerant orator |
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: | Andre Gide |
Title: | [unknown] |
Genre: | Fiction, Autobiog / Diary |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | borrowed (other) borrowed from bookshop owner |
Record ID: | 6004 | |
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: | 445 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 445, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6004, accessed: 17 April 2024 |
See Bonar Thompson, 'Hyde Park Orator', p.123. |
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