| Evidence: | '[Pritchett] was... unprepared for the intimidating greatness of Ruskin's "Modern Painters"... "There was too much to know. I discovered that Ruskin was not so very many years older than I was when he wrote that book".' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: London | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Victor Sawdon Pritchett |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 16 Dec 1900 |
| Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
| Occupation: | son of itinerant salesman, later a writer |
| 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: | John Ruskin |
| Title: | Modern Painters |
| Genre: | Essays / Criticism, Arts / architecture |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 6018 | |
| 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: | 452-3 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 452-3, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6018, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
| See V.S. Pritchett, 'A Cab at the Door' (1968). |
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