| Evidence: | 'It was about noon, and the officers had all gone home to their dinners, when, as I sat on my stool munching my loaf and reading Boswell's "Life of Dr Johnson", I heard a shuffling of feet outside and my cell-door was thrown open by the patrol' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Apr 1901 and 31 Apr 1901 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | afternoon: noon daytime |
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| Place: | specific address: Wormwood Scrubs other location: in his prison cell |
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| Type of Experience (Reader): |
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| Type of Experience (Listener): |
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| Reader: | anon |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
| Occupation: | 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: | James Boswell |
| Title: | Life of Johnson |
| Genre: | Biography |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | borrowed (institution library) prison library |
| Record ID: | 12720 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | n/a | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Twenty-five years in seventeen prisons | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1903 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 197 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | [anon], Twenty-five years in seventeen prisons (London, 1903), p. 197, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12720, accessed: 10 December 2023 | |
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