Record Number: 5221
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Jonathan Rose, "How Historians Study Reader Response: or, What did Jo Think of Bleak House?": "Arthur Harding, a professional criminal who grew up in the East End slum known as 'the Jago,' was quite impressed by A Tale of Two Cities and Dombey and Son when he read them in prison ..."
Century:1850-1899, 1900-1945
Date:unknown
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:other location: prison
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:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:n/a
Socio-Economic Group:Unknown/NA
Occupation:Professional criminal
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:n/a
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Dombey and Son
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:5221
Source:n/a
Editor:John O. and Robert L. Jordan and Patten
Title:Literature in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century British Publishing and Reading Practices
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Date of Publication:1995
Vol:n/a
Page:207
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
John O. and Robert L. Jordan and Patten (ed.), Literature in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century British Publishing and Reading Practices, (Cambridge, 1995), p. 207, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=5221, accessed: 10 November 2024
Additional Comments:
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