Record Number: 5695
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester Reference Library. There he discovered, Adam Smith, Ricardo, Herbert Spencer, Huxley, Mill, Emerson, Dickens, Morris, Blatchford, Shaw and Wells, and of course John Ruskin..."Study always left me with a deep feeling that there was so much amiss with the world. It seemed that it had been started at the wrong end, and that it was everybody's business to put the matter right".'
Century:1900-1945
Date:unknown
Country:England
Timedaytime
Place:city: Manchester
other location: Manchester Reference 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:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:n/a
Socio-Economic Group:Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Occupation:clerk
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:Essays / Criticism, Geography / Travel, Politics, Arts / architecture
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceread in situ
read at Manchester Reference Library
Source Information:
Record ID:5695
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:409
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, (New Haven, 2001), p. 409, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=5695, accessed: 22 November 2024
Additional Comments:
See Joseph Toole, 'Fighting Through Life' (London, 1935).
