| Evidence: | 'Each night I hurried into my best second-hand suit of clothes, hurried down my tea and then hurried off to evening class to learn English grammar and literature. And what a revelation it was ... The study of style and the composition of poetry were especially fascinating, and I used to go to bed with Addison or Macaulay flashing in my mind and with my emotions stirred by the Ode to the Nightingale.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1906 and 1907 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | evening | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Birmingham county: West Midlands |
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| Reader: | Vero Walter Garratt |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 17 Feb 1892 |
| Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
| Occupation: | Factory worker |
| 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: | Joseph Addison |
| Title: | unknown |
| Genre: | Essays / Criticism |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | reading group |
| Record ID: | 31066 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Vero Walter Garratt | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | A Man in the Street | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1939 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 92 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Vero Walter Garratt, A Man in the Street (London, 1939), n/a, p. 92, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=31066, accessed: 20 May 2013 | |
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