| Evidence: | 'East End socialist Walter Southgate remembered that Dick Turpin and Buffalo Bill stories "were condemned by our teachers (all from middle class backgrounds) who would confiscate them", but he appreciated the generic similarities to "Robinson Crusoe", the Waverley novels and "The Last of the Mohicans"'. |
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| Century: | 1850-1899, 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1895 and 1910 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: London other location: East End |
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| Reader: | Walter Southgate |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1890 |
| Socio-economic group: | Unknown/NA |
| Occupation: | later a socialist |
| 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: | Daniel Defoe |
| Title: | Robinson Crusoe |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 4983 | |
| 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: | 369 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 369, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4983, accessed: 23 April 2024 | |
| See Walter Southgate, 'That's the Way it Was', pp57-8 - no further ref. traceable in Rose notes |
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