Record Number: 2153

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Despite the disapproval of her comrade Palme Dutt, Helen Crawfurd found Communist propaganda in Scripture... According to her unauthorized version, "the Lamb dumb before her shearers, represented the uncritical exploited working class"...And when she had studied the Psalms long enough, she somehow discerned there a materialist conception of history: "I saw the Psalmist David as a shepherd on the hills, making his poems from the material things surrounding him, such as 'the green pastures, the still waters'".'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

unknown

Country:

Scotland

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Helen Crawfurd

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

1877

Socio-Economic Group:

Unknown/NA

Occupation:

unknown - Communist speaker

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

Scotland

Country of Experience:

Scotland

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

[Bible - Psalms]

Genre:

Bible

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

2153

Source:

Print

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:

106

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 106, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=2153, accessed: 26 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

See Crawfurd's TS autobiography - whereabouts unclear