Record Number: 3365
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Allen Clark, the son of Bolton textile workers, found physiology books in the public library incomprehensible. A newspaper reference to Rabelais motivated him to borrow Gargantua and Pantagruel, which was no more helpful: "the love passages in the tales were meaningless and boring and I skipped them".'
Century:1850-1899
Date:unknown
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Bolton
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Child (0-17)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:1863
Socio-Economic Group:Labourer (non-agricultural)
Occupation:son of textile workers
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:[physiology textbooks]
Genre:Textbook / self-education, Medicine
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceborrowed (public library)
Source Information:
Record ID:3365
Source: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:210
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, (New Haven, 2001), p. 210, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=3365, accessed: 03 November 2024
Additional Comments:
See Allen Clarke 'Adventuring in "The Realms of Gold"', Liverpool Weekly Post (26 May, 1934)