Record Number: 2153
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Despite the disapproval of her comrade Palme Dutt, Helen Crawfurd found Communist propaganda in Scripture... According to her unauthorized version, "the Lamb dumb before her shearers, represented the uncritical exploited working class"...And when she had studied the Psalms long enough, she somehow discerned there a materialist conception of history: "I saw the Psalmist David as a shepherd on the hills, making his poems from the material things surrounding him, such as 'the green pastures, the still waters'".'
Century:1900-1945
Date:unknown
Country:Scotland
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:Female
Date of Birth:1877
Socio-Economic Group:Unknown/NA
Occupation:unknown - Communist speaker
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:Scotland
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: Title:[Bible - Psalms]
Genre:Bible
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:2153
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:106
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, (New Haven, 2001), p. 106, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=2153, accessed: 27 September 2024
Additional Comments:
See Crawfurd's TS autobiography - whereabouts unclear