Evidence: | 'the only fiction [Robert] Roberts read as a boy was an abridged Welsh-language Robinson Crusoe' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | Wales | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | county: Denbighshire | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Robert Roberts |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1834 |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | farmer's son, later a scholar |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | Wales |
Country of experience: | Wales |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Daniel Defoe |
Title: | Robinson Crusoe |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | Welsh abridged edition |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 1971 | |
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: | 96-7 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 96-7, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1971, accessed: 24 April 2024 |
See W.H. Davies, ed. 'The Life and Opinions of Robert Roberts, A Wandering Scholar' (Cardiff, 1923) |
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