| Evidence: | '[Joseph Keating's] initiation into modern literature came when his brother introduced him to Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat: "I had thought that only Smollett and Dickens could make a reader laugh; and I was surprised to find that a man who was actually living could write in such a genuinely humorous way'. |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | Wales | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Joseph Keating |
| Age | Unknown |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1871 |
| Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
| Occupation: | collier |
| 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: | Jerome K. Jerome |
| Title: | Three Men in a Boat |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | borrowed (other) from brother |
| Record ID: | 2480 | |
| 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: | 121-2 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 121-2, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=2480, accessed: 25 April 2024 | |
| See Joseph Keating 'My Struggle for Life' (London, 1916) |
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