| Evidence: | '"Reading for me then was haphazard, unguided, practically uncritical", recalled boilermaker's daughter Marjory Todd. "I slipped all too easily into those traps for the half-baked - books about books, the old 'John O' London's Weekly', chit-chat of one kind or another". Yet in a few years she had advanced to "Moby Dick", "Lord Jim", "Crime and Punishment", and "Wuthering Heights".' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Marjory Todd |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 1906 |
| Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
| Occupation: | boilermaker's daughter |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | n/a |
| Country of experience: | n/a |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| Title: | Crime and Punishment |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 5288 | |
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| 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: | 376 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 376, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5288, accessed: 30 May 2023 | |
| See Marjory Todd, 'Snakes and Ladders' (London, 1960), pp. 107-9 |
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