Record Number: 2784

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'In the Star [Philip] Ballard read the music criticism of Bernard Shaw, and Richard le Gallienne on books... He pressed on to Meredith and Walter Pater'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

unknown

Country:

Wales

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:

Philip Ballard

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder

Occupation:

son of tinplate worker

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

Wales

Country of Experience:

Wales

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

George Bernard Shaw

Title:

n/a

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Arts / architecture, music criticism

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown

Publication Details

in the Star magazine

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

2784

Source:

Print

Author:

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:

137

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, (New Haven, 2001), p. 137, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=2784, accessed: 30 December 2024

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Additional Comments:

See Philip Ballard, 'I Cannot Forget'.