| Evidence: | '[Philip Ballard] had no exposure to contemporary writers until the 1890s: "I gained a nodding acquaintance with the life and letters of Ancient Greece and Rome, and... I had read most of Dickens, much of Thackeray and some of Scott; but I had never read a line of Henry James, of Meredith or of Hardy".' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | Wales | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Philip Ballard |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
| Occupation: | son of tinplate worker |
| 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: | n/a |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | read in situ or perhaps borrowed? Guildhall Library |
| Record ID: | 2777 | |
| 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: | 137 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 137, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=2777, accessed: 31 May 2023 | |
| See Philip Ballard, 'I Cannot Forget'. |
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