Record Number: 12480

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I remember years ago reading the life of Charles Kingsley who has been called "a very perfect gentleman". Yet in that book, collated by his wife, one can read how, just as the family was sitting down to a well provided breakfast table, a poor vagrant woman called at Evesleigh Rectory for help. She had been out all night and, as Kingsley himself admits, was utterly wretched. Tired, hungry and in rags she appealed to this "very perfect Christian knight" for a little food! Did she get it? No! the "very perfect knight" sent her empty away to walk some miles to the nearest workhouse!'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1900 and 31 Dec 1932

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Stuart Wood

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

27 Feb 1885

Socio-Economic Group:

Labourer (non-agricultural)

Occupation:

habitual criminal

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Frances Kingsley

Title:

Charles Kingsley, his Letters and Memories of his Life

Genre:

Biography

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

12480

Source:

Print

Author:

Stuart Wood

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Shades of the Prison House: A Personal Memoir

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1932

Vol:

n/a

Page:

137

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Stuart Wood, Shades of the Prison House: A Personal Memoir, (London, 1932), p. 137, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=12480, accessed: 19 February 2025

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Additional Comments:

None