| Evidence: | 'This book made a deep and lasting impression upon me because, apart from its profound human interest in the widest sense of the term, the agonising process of revaluation of regeneration, which it portrays, took place in the grim prison where my own initiation into the way of the transgressor first began.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Stuart Wood [pseud?] |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 27 Feb 1885 |
| Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
| Occupation: | son of master craftsman, but habitual criminal |
| Religion: | family Methodist but becomes athiest |
| 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: | Oscar Wilde |
| Title: | Ballad of Reading Gaol or De Profundis |
| Genre: | Social Science, Autobiog / Diary, Law, crime |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 12642 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Stuart Wood | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Shades of the prison house: A personal memoir | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1932 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 21 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Stuart Wood, Shades of the prison house: A personal memoir (London, 1932), p. 21, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12642, accessed: 25 April 2024 | |
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