Record Number: 5663
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
[checkweighman Chester Armstrong wrote] "The fact of Ruskin's gallant and successful defence of Turner the great landscape painter, and his still more valiant stand against the orthodox economists, cast a spell over me which was irresistible... To read 'Modern Painters', 'The Seven Lamps of Architecture', 'The Stones of Venice', 'The Crown of Wild Olives', was a kind of aesthetic intoxication".
Century:1850-1899
Date:unknown
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:county: Northumberland
Type of Experience(Reader):
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solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:1868
Socio-Economic Group:Labourer (non-agricultural)
Occupation:checkweighman (in mining)
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:England
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:The Crown of Wild Olives
Genre:Essays / Criticism, Social Science, Politics, Philosophy
Form of Text:Print: Book
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Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:5663
Source:Jonathan Rose
Editor:n/a
Title:The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
Place of Publication:New Haven
Date of Publication:2001
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Page:404
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, (New Haven, 2001), p. 404, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=5663, accessed: 09 November 2024
Additional Comments:
See Chester Armstrong, 'Pilgrimage from Nenthead', pp. 156-64.