Evidence: | 'Elizabeth Rignall, a London painter's daughter, was not permitted to read anything else on Sundays, so she treated Pilgrim's Progress as a horror comic. Irresistibly drawn to the lurid colour illustration of the horned Apollyon, "and stretched out full length on the sofa with the book open before me I would proceed, week after week, to frighten the life out of myself".' |
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Century: | 1850-1899, 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Elizabeth Rignall |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 1894 |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | painter's daughter |
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: | John Bunyan |
Title: | Pilgrim's Progress |
Genre: | Other religious, Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | illustrated edition |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 1998 | |
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: | 104 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 104, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1998, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
See Elizabeth Rignall 'All so Long Ago', ch.2 - Brunel University Library |
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