Record Number: 2003
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'At age ten Harry West, the son of a circus escape artist, read Pilgrim's Progress merely as "A great heroic adventure". Only later did he appreciate it as a religious allegory, and still later - after his exposure to Freud and Jung - he came to "discover it as one of the greatest, most potent works on practical psychology extant".'
Century:1900-1945
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Type of Experience(Reader):
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(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Unknown
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:1880
Socio-Economic Group:Labourer (non-agricultural)
circus performer's son
circus performer's son
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Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Text Being Read:
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Genre:Social Science
Form of Text:Print: Book
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Source Information:
Record ID:2003
Source:Jonathan Rose
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Title:The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
Place of Publication:New Haven
Date of Publication:2001
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Page:104-5
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Citation:
Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, (New Haven, 2001), p. 104-5, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=2003, accessed: 14 October 2024
Additional Comments:
See Harry West, 'The Autobiography of Harry Alfred West', Brunel University Library, p.44-5