| Evidence: | 'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of the Clarion, the librarian at the Miners' Institute (who directed him to Don Quixote) and [guidance from fellow pit workers].' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
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| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Wil John Edwards |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1888 |
| Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
| Occupation: | collier |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | n/a |
| Country of experience: | n/a |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Edward Gibbon |
| Title: | presumably Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
| Genre: | History |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 4232 | |
| 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: | 243 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 243, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4232, accessed: 10 December 2023 | |
| See Wil John Edwards, 'From the Valley I came', pp44-8, no further ref traceable in Rose. |
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