| Evidence: | 'In the depressed steelworks town of Merthyr Tydfil between the world wars, schoolboys were baffled by A Christmas Carol: "for one thing, we never could understand why it was considered that Bob Cratchit was hard done by - a good job, we all thought he had".' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1918 and 1939 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Wales | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Merthyr Tydfil | ||||||||||
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| Reading Group: | Welsh schoolboys |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
| Occupation: | schoolboys in mining community |
| 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: | Charles Dickens |
| Title: | A Christmas Carol |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown read at school |
| Record ID: | 2398 | |
| 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: | 114 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 114, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=2398, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
| See R.L. Lee, 'The Town that Died' (London, 1975) p.88 |
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