Record Number: 4122
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
In the public library [Manny Shinwell] doggedly tackled volumes "whose contents I usually failed to understand": Paley's Evidences of Christianity, Haeckel's Riddle of the Universe, Herbert Spencer's Sociology, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. Shinwell's whole intellectual career was an exciting but laborious exercise in decoding. All his life he used a dictionary to correct his pronunciation'.
Century:1900-1945
Date:unknown
Country:Scotland
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Place:n/a
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:Emmanuel Shinwell (later Baron Shinwell)
Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:18 Oct 1884
Socio-Economic Group:Labourer (non-agricultural)
Occupation:machinist in factory, later politician
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:Scotland
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author:Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
Title:Riddle of the Universe
Genre:Philosophy, Science
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsin translation from German
Provenanceborrowed (public library)
Source Information:
Record ID:4122
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:226
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, (New Haven, 2001), p. 226, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=4122, accessed: 13 October 2024
Additional Comments:
See Emmanuel Shinwell, 'Lead with the Left: My first Ninety-Six Years' (London, 1981) pp25-35