| Evidence: | '[Robinson Crusoe] was Thomas Jordan's favorite book, read through in one sitting at age eleven. The promise of "faraway places fired my imagination" and ultimately inspired him, the son of an iliterate miner, to leave the pits of his Durham mining village and join the Army'. |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1902 and 31 Dec 1904 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | county: Durham | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Thomas Jordan |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1892 |
| Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
| Occupation: | miner, later soldier |
| 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: | Daniel Defoe |
| Title: | Robinson Crusoe |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 2360 | |
| 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: | 109 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 109, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=2360, accessed: 06 June 2023 | |
| See Thomas Jordan MS in Brunel University Library |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)