| Evidence: | 'At Winchester I was able to get the first volume of Gibbon's "Decline and Fall", but had no time to finish it. On another occasion at another prison I read the whole work through from beginning to end.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Winchester specific address: Wincester Gaol other location: in his cell |
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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: | Edward Gibbon |
| Title: | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
| Genre: | History |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | borrowed (institution library) prison library |
| Record ID: | 12650 | |
| 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: | 71 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Stuart Wood, Shades of the prison house: A personal memoir (London, 1932), p. 71, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12650, accessed: 29 November 2023 | |
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