| Evidence: | 'H.M. Tomlinson, a successful author and dockworker's son, credited his East End Board school with encouraging free expression in composition classes and giving him a solid literary footing in the Bible, Shakespeare and Scott'. |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: London other location: East End |
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| Reader: | H.M. Tomlinson |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1872 |
| Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
| Occupation: | dockworker's son, later author |
| 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: | Walter Scott |
| Title: | n/a |
| Genre: | Fiction, Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | read in situ read at school |
| Record ID: | 2799 | |
| 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: | 157-8 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 157-8, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=2799, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
| See H.M. Tomlinson, "A Mingled Yarn" (London, 1953) pp.11-13 |
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