| Evidence: | 'As a circuit preacher Pyke introduced farm people to Milton, Carlyle, Ruskin and Tolstoy. His own reading ranged from Shakespeare and Boswell to Shelley's poems and George Henry Lewes's History of Philosophy. He was even prepared to acknowledge the "genius" of Jude the Obscure, though he would have preferred a happy ending'. |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Richard Pyke |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1879 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | preacher and President of the Methodist Conference |
| Religion: | Methodist |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | n/a |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | James Boswell |
| Title: | n/a |
| Genre: | Biography |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 979 | |
| 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: | 35 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 35, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=979, accessed: 07 December 2023 | |
| See Richard Pyke, 'Men and Memories' (London, 1948) |
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