Record Number: 959
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Farell Lee Bevan's Peep of Day (759,000 copies in print by 1888) supplied him with the frame of a totalistic religious ideology: "It was from these pages that I got my first idea of the moral foundations of the universe, was handed the first key with which to unlock the mysteries of the world in which I found myself. These little books served the purpose of an index or filing system; a framework of iron dogma, if you like, providing an orderly arrangement of the world and its history for the young mind, under two main categories, Good and Evil". But Jones also attended a board school, where he found "salvation" in an old cupboard of books presented by the local MP. They were mainly volumes of voyages and natural history, "which took a Rhymney boy away into the realms of wonder over the seas to the Malay Archipelago, to Abyssinia, to the sources of the Nile and the Albert Nyanza, to the curiosities of natural history, piloted by James Bruce, Samuel Baker and Frank Buckland".'
Century:1850-1899
Date:unknown
Country:Wales
Timen/a
Place:specific address: School
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:Child (0-17)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:1870
Socio-Economic Group:Labourer (non-agricultural)
Occupation:labourer at ironworks when grown up
Religion:Nonconformist
Country of Origin:Wales
Country of Experience:Wales
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:[Probably] 'The Albert N'yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, and Explorations of the Nile Sources'
Genre:Geography / Travel
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceborrowed (institution library)
school library
Source Information:
Record ID:959
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:33
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, (New Haven, 2001), p. 33, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=959, accessed: 12 October 2024
Additional Comments:
See Thomas Jones, 'Rhymney Memories' (Llandysul, 1970)