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 |
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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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