Record Number: 12642
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'This book made a deep and lasting impression upon me because, apart from its profound human interest in the widest sense of the term, the agonising process of revaluation of regeneration, which it portrays, took place in the grim prison where my own initiation into the way of the transgressor first began.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:unknown
Country:England
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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:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:27 Feb 1885
Socio-Economic Group:Labourer (non-agricultural)
Occupation:son of master craftsman, but habitual criminal
Religion:family Methodist but becomes athiest
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Ballad of Reading Gaol or De Profundis
Genre:Social Science, Autobiog / Diary, Law, crime
Form of Text:Print: Book
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Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:12642
Source:Stuart Wood
Editor:n/a
Title:Shades of the prison house: A personal memoir
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1932
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Page:21
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Stuart Wood, Shades of the prison house: A personal memoir, (London, 1932), p. 21, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=12642, accessed: 17 August 2024
Additional Comments:
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