Record Number: 5222
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Jonathan Rose, "How Historians Study Reader Response: or, What did Jo Think of Bleak House?": " ... some of ... [Dickens's readers] found it difficult to share his anguish over the hardships of the clerkly classes. Growing up in the depressed steelworks town of Merthyr Tydfil between the world wars, some poor schoolboys were a bit baffled when their teacher read them A Christmas Carol: ' ... we never could understand why it was considered why Bob Cratchit was hard done by -- a good job, we all thought he had.'"
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 11 11 1918 and 01 09 1939
Country:Wales
Timen/a
Place:city: Merthyr Tydfil
other location: school
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary reactive unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Unknown
Date of Birth:n/a
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Teacher
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:n/a
Country of Experience:Wales
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
schoolboys
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:A Christmas Carol
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:5222
Source:n/a
Editor:John O. and Robert L. Jordan and Patten
Title:Literature in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century British Publishing and Reading Practices
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Date of Publication:1995
Vol:n/a
Page:208
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
John O. and Robert L. Jordan and Patten (ed.), Literature in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century British Publishing and Reading Practices, (Cambridge, 1995), p. 208, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=5222, accessed: 21 December 2024
Additional Comments:
Quotation from R. L. Lee, The Town That Died (London, 1975) 88.
