| Evidence: | 'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Bennett, Galsworthy, Edith Wharton and Willa Cather'. |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1920 and 31 Dec 1925 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | daytime | ||||||||||
| Place: | county: Northamptonshire other location: at work |
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| Reader: | Herbert Ernest Bates |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 16 May 1905 |
| Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
| Occupation: | clerk, later author |
| 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: | Herbert George Wells |
| Title: | [unknown] |
| Genre: | Fiction, Essays / Criticism |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 5749 | |
| 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: | 417 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 417, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5749, accessed: 04 June 2023 | |
| See H.E. Bates, The Vanished World (London, 1969) pp.143-8 |
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