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Record 2767

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'[J.M. Dent's] reading was marked by the autodidact's characteristic enthusiasm and spottiness. He knew Pilgrim's Progress, Milton, Cowper, Thomson's Seasons and Young's Night Thoughts; but...did not read Shakespeare seriously until he was nearly thirty'.
Century: 1850-1899
Date: unknown
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Darlington
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Joseph Malaby Dent
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1849
Socio-economic group: Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Occupation: printer then publisher
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

 

Text Being Read:

Author: James Thomson
Title: The Seasons
Genre: Poetry
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 2767  
Source - Print  
  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: 132
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 132, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=2767, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

See J.M. Dent, The House of Dent: 1888-1938, (London, 1938)

 

 

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