Evidence: | 'When, a year later, a senior apprentice -a Clarion Scout -gave me a copy of the penny edition of Blatchford's "Merrie England" of which he had sold a large quantity "round the frames", its matter was so very different from what its title had led me to expect that I put it aside unread. Years later circumstances caused me to hunt out this copy of "Merrie England" and give it serious consideration. I read it with avidity from end to end. In less than an hour it had done my business completely. Why I would hardly so much as look at a book which, later on, had so enduring an effect on me is worth puzzling out.' |
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Century: | 1850-1899, 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Thomas A. Jackson |
Age | Unknown |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 21 Aug 1879 |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | son of master craftsman, reading boy at printers |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Robert Blatchford |
Title: | Merrie England |
Genre: | Essays / Criticism, Politics |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | penny edition |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 11432 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | T.A. Jackson | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Solo Trumpet: Some memories of Socialist agitation and propaganda | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1953 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 11 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | T.A. Jackson, Solo Trumpet: Some memories of Socialist agitation and propaganda (London, 1953), p. 11, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=11432, accessed: 30 November 2023 |
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