Evidence: | Jonathan Rose, "How Historians Study Reader Response: or, What did Jo Think of Bleak House?": "Arthur Harding, a professional criminal who grew up in the East End slum known as 'the Jago,' was quite impressed by A Tale of Two Cities and Dombey and Son when he read them in prison ..."
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Century: | 1800-1849, 1850-1899, 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | other location: prison | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Arthur Harding |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Unknown/NA |
Occupation: | Professional criminal |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | n/a |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Charles Dickens |
Title: | A Tale of Two Cities |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 5220 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | n/a | |
Editor: | John O. and Robert L. Jordan and Patten | |
Title: | Literature in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century British Publishing and Reading Practices | |
Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
Date of Publication: | 1995 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 207 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | John O. and Robert L. Jordan and Patten (ed.), Literature in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century British Publishing and Reading Practices (Cambridge, 1995), p. 207, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5220, accessed: 23 April 2024 |
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