Record Number: 1328
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charwoman, he bought up all the cheap reprints he could afford and kept notes on fifty-eight of them... There were Emerson's essays, Ruskin's Sesame and Lilies, Holmes's Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, Lamb's Essays of Elia, classic biogaphies (Boswell on Johnson, Lockhart on Scott, Carlyle on Sterling), several Waverley novels, Wuthering Heights, Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, Pilgrim's Progress, The Imitation of Christ, Shakespeare's sonnets, Tennyson, Browning, William Morris and Palgrave's Golden Treasury.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:unknown
Country:England
Timen/a
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: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:1892
Socio-Economic Group:Labourer (non-agricultural)
Occupation:poor background, became a Labour MP
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
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Sesame and Lilies
Genre:Education, Conduct books
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailscheap reprint edition
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:1328
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:49
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, (New Haven, 2001), p. 49, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=1328, accessed: 22 November 2024
Additional Comments:
See Philip Inman, 'No Going Back' (London, 1952) pp.35-47
