Evidence: | '"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Argent, son of a Camberwell labourer. Taking advantage of the public library and early Penguins, he ranged all over the intellectual landscape: Freudian psychology, industrial administration, English literature, political history, Blake, Goethe, Mill, Nietzsche, The Webbs, Bertrand Russell's Essays in Scepticism, and Spengler's "The Decline of the West".' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Frank Argent |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1899 |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
Occupation: | later trade unionist and factory inspector |
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: | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
Title: | n/a |
Genre: | Fiction, Drama, Poetry, Philosophy, Science |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | borrowed (public library) or in a Penguin edition (owned?) |
Record ID: | 2816 | |
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: | 162 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 162, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=2816, accessed: 01 June 2023 |
See Frank Argent, "No Medals for Frankie"; no further reference traceable in Rose. |
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