Evidence: | 'Emrys Daniel Hughes, son of a Welsh miner, first treated Pilgrim's Progress as an illustrated adventure story. When he was jailed during the first World War for refusing conscription, he reread it and discovered a very different book: "Lord Hategood could easily have been in the Government. I had talked with Mr Worldly Wiseman and had been in the Slough of Despond and knew all the jurymen who had been on the jury at the trial of Hopeful at Vanity Fair. And Vanity Fair would of course have been all for the War."' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1914 and 1918 | ||||||||||
Country: | n/a | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | other location: prison | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Emrys Daniel Hughes |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
Occupation: | miner's son |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | Wales |
Country of experience: | n/a |
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: | n/a |
Provenance: | borrowed (institution library) |
Record ID: | 2005 | |
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: | 105 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 105, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=2005, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
See Janet Fyfe, 'Books Behind Bars: The Role of Books, Reading and Libraries in British Prison Reform 1701-1911' (Westport CT, 1992) pp.195-6 |
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