| Evidence: | Second confinement in the Prison at Hull:
'I remember how when the light began to fail of evenings, I often risked punishment by getting up to my window to finish an essay by Macaulay, whose style charmed me, or one of those vibrant, pulpitating lectures on hero-worship by Carlyle!' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1912 and 31 Dec 1912 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | evening | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Hull specific address: House of Correction, Hull other location: in his prison cell, by his window |
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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, habitual criminal |
| Religion: | n/a |
| 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: | Thomas Babbington Macaulay |
| Title: | [uknown] |
| Genre: | Essays / Criticism, History |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | borrowed (institution library) prison library |
| Record ID: | 12695 | |
| 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: | 207 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Stuart Wood, Shades of the prison house: A personal memoir (London, 1932), p. 207, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12695, accessed: 05 December 2023 | |
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