| Evidence: | 'For Tom Barclay, son of a Catholic rag-and-bone collector, the erotic episodes in the Douay Bible "aroused my curiosity as to sexual matters". He found some answers in secondhand schooltexts of Ovid, Juvenal and Catullus: though he knew no Latin beyond the Mass, the English notes offered plenty of background on the filthy loves of gods and goddesses".' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Tom Barclay |
| Age | n/a |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1852 |
| Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
| Occupation: | rag and bone collector's son |
| Religion: | Catholic |
| 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: | Catullus |
| Title: | [unknown] |
| Genre: | Classics, Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | school editions, in Latin but annotated in English |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 3363 | |
| 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: | 209 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 209, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3363, accessed: 08 June 2023 | |
| See Tom Barclay, 'Memoirs and Medleys: The Autobiography of a Bottle-washer' (Leicester, 1934) pp.19-20 |
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