Evidence: | '"The words I didn't understand I just skipped over, yet managed to get a good idea of what the story was about", wrote James Murray, the son of a Scottish shoemaker. "By the time I was ten or eleven years old I did not need to skip any words in any books because by then I had a good grounding in roots and derivations". Crusoe so aroused his appetite for literature that, when his schoolteacher asked the class to list all the books they had read, Murray rattled off titles by Ballantyne, Kingston and Dickens until "I realised the eyes of everyone in the room were on me..."' |
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Century: | 1850-1899, 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1894 and 31 Dec 1905 | ||||||||||
Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | James Murray |
Age | Unknown |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1894 |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | shoemaker's son |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | Scotland |
Country of experience: | Scotland |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | William Henry Giles Kingston |
Title: | [novels] |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 2365 | |
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=2365, accessed: 23 April 2024 |
See James Murray, "To Pashendaele and Back" - no further ref traceable. |
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