| 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: | Dombey and Son |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 5221 | |
| 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=5221, accessed: 18 April 2024 | |
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