Evidence: | [Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to literature abated' in later years and in his later memoirs] 'he confessed a liking for Burns, Scott, the Brontes, Mrs Gaskell, children's comics and Olivier's film of Hamlet... Of course he admired Dickens, and not only the obvious Oliver Twist: the communist MP was prepared to admit that he appreciated the satire of the Circumlocution Office in Little Dorrit'. |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reader: | William Gallacher |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 25 Dec 1881 |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
Occupation: | brass fitter, later Communist MP |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | Scotland |
Country of experience: | Scotland |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Robert Burns |
Title: | [poetry] |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 4463 | |
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: | 319 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 319, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4463, accessed: 04 December 2023 |
See William Gallacher, 'Rise Like Lions' (London, 1951), pp. 129-30, 180; and The Last Memoirs of William Gallacher (London, 1966), pp. 25, 35. |
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