Record Number: 4562
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'No national commentator sympathised with working-class culture so well as Wilfred Pickles, BBC newsreader and stonemason's son. But even he admitted that the hours he spent in the public library, reading Shelley, Keats, Shaw and Galsworthy, represented a desperate breakout from the stultifying provincialism of his native Halifax.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:unknown
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Halifax
other location: public library
(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:Child (0-17)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:13 Oct 1904
Socio-Economic Group:Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Occupation:stonemason's son; later newsreader
Religion:n/a
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:[unknown]
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceread in situ
in public library
Source Information:
Record ID:4562
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:344
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, (New Haven, 2001), p. 344, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=4562, accessed: 17 August 2024
Additional Comments:
See Wilfred Pickles, 'Between You and Me' (London, 1949) pp. 29-30