| Evidence: | '"Thinking back, I am amazed at the amount of English literature we absorbed in those four years", recalled Ethel Clark, a Gloucester railway worker's daughter, "and I pay tribute to the man who made it possible... Scott, Thackeray, Shakespeare, Longfellow, Dickens, Matthew Arnold, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Rudyard Kipling were but a few authors we had at our fingertips. How he made the people live again for us!".' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | county: Gloucestershire other location: School |
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| Reader: | Ethel Clark |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 1909 |
| Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
| Occupation: | railway worker's daughter |
| 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 |
| Author: | William Makepeace Thackeray |
| Title: | n/a |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | read in situ read at school |
| Record ID: | 2790 | |
| 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: | 157 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 157, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=2790, accessed: 07 December 2023 | |
| See John Burnett (ed.) "Destiny Obscure" (Harmondsworth, 1987) p.159 |
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