| Evidence: | 'For a boy in a Lancashire mining village around 1880, where there were few books to read (other than twenty volumes of Methodist Conference minutes) W.H.G. Kingston's "Dick Onslow Among the Red Indians" could be hypnotic: "I was entranced. I no longer lived in Hindley. In imagination I turned native and lived among red men and hunters, tomahawks and scalps".' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 1880 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Hindley county: Lancashire |
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| Type of Experience (Reader): |
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| Type of Experience (Listener): |
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| Reader: | William Lax |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
| Occupation: | probably miner's son |
| 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: | W.H.G. Kingston |
| Title: | Dick Onslow Among the Red Indians |
| Genre: | Fiction, Children's Lit |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 5604 | |
| 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: | 384 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 384, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5604, accessed: 25 April 2024 | |
| See William Lax, "Lax: His Book" (London: Epworth, 1937), pp. 91-94. |
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