Evidence: | 'As a young South Wales miner, Edmund Stonelake, who had never heard of the French Revolution, asked a bookseller for something on the subject and was sold Carlyle. At first it was hard reading, but eventually he extracted an entire political education from its pages: "I learned...of the great and lasting influence the Revolution had on peoples and countries struggling to establish democratic principles in Government in various parts of the world".' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | Wales | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Edmund Stonelake |
Age | Unknown |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1876 |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
Occupation: | miner |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | Wales |
Country of experience: | Wales |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Thomas Carlyle |
Title: | n/a |
Genre: | Politics, Unknown |
Form of Text: | Print: Book, Unknown |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 1042 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Jonathan Rose | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes | |
Place of Publication: | n/a | |
Date of Publication: | 2001 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 43-4 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (2001), p. 43-4, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1042, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
See Edmund Stonelake, 'The Autobiography of Edmund Stonelake' (ed. Anthony Mo-O'Brien (Bridgend, 1981) pp.57-8 |
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