Evidence: | 'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson... would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't I follow the literary trail, once I found it. Like a Fenimore Cooper Indian I was tireless and silent once I started. Scott; Charles Reade, George Eliot; the Brontes; later on Hardy; Hugo; Dumas and scores of others. Then came Shakespeare; the Bible; Milton and the line of poets generally. I was hardly sixteen when I picked up James Thomson's Seasons, in Stead's 'Penny Poets'... I wept for the shepherd who died in the snow".' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1895 and 1897 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Durham | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Jack Lawson |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | n/a |
Date of Birth | 1881 |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
Occupation: | collier |
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: | Walter Scott |
Title: | n/a |
Genre: | Fiction, Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown From Boldon Miners' Institute - uncertain whether borrowed or read in situ |
Record ID: | 1420 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Jonathan Rose | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes | |
Place of Publication: | New Haven | |
Date of Publication: | 2001 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 52 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 52, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1420, accessed: 25 April 2024 |
See Jack Lawson, 'A Man's Life' (London, 1932) p.77 |
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