| Evidence: | 'At Ruskin College he was exposed to Marx, but he found a more compelling Utopian prophet when he read Lewis Carroll to his daughters: "Then one could look at life and affairs from the proper angle, for was not all our work to this end - that little children should live in their Wonderland, and mothers and fathers be heartful of the good of life because they were".' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Until: 1932 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Jack Lawson |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1881 |
| Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
| Occupation: | ex-collier, member of Labour party |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
his daughters |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Lewis Carroll |
| Title: | n/a |
| Genre: | Fiction, Children's Lit, Politics |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 1440 | |
| 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: | 53 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 53, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1440, accessed: 07 June 2023 | |
| See Jack Lawson, 'A Man's Life' (London, 1932) |
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