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Record 12078

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
?I send you herewith, the forthcoming Miscellany, with my glance at the new poor Law Bill.?
Century: 1800-1849
Date: unknown
Country: England
Time: evening: Saturday
Place: city: London
specific address: Furnivals Inn
   
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

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Charles Dickens
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 7 Feb 1812
Socio-economic group: Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Occupation: Journalist/ Novelist
Religion: Church of England
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: Poor Law Bill
Genre: Politics, Law
Form of Text: Print: Unknown
Publication details: Referred to as the 'new' poor law bill by Dickens in 1837
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 12078  
Source - Print  
  Author: Charles Dickens
  Editor: Madeline House
  Title: The letters of Charles Dickens: Volume 1: 1828-1839
  Place of Publication: Oxford
  Date of Publication: 1965
  Vol: 1
  Page: 231
  Additional comments: Graham Storey ed. Published by Clarendon Press as the Pilgrim edition.

Citation: Charles Dickens, Madeline House (ed.), The letters of Charles Dickens: Volume 1: 1828-1839 (Oxford, 1965), 1, p. 231, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12078, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

Letter to Thomas Beard. [Note 1: ?In the early chapters of "Oliver" CD pours his sarcasm on the 1834 Poor Law?s adoption of the Malthusian theory of population.?]

 

 

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