Record Number: 5733
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback editions of Shakespeare and ploughed through the literature section (Chaucer, Marlowe, Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Milton, Pope, Chatterton, Goldsmith, Byron, Shelley, Burns, Wordsworth, Leigh Hunt) of the public library. With that preparation, he was winning prizes for poems in London papers by age thirteen...[he] went on to found and edit several Lancashire journals'.
Century:1850-1899
Date:Between 1 Jan 1870 and 31 Dec 1876
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Bolton
county: Lancashire
(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:1863
Socio-Economic Group:Labourer (non-agricultural)
Occupation:textile worker's son, later journalist
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:[unknown]
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceborrowed (public library)
from Bolton public library
Source Information:
Record ID:5733
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:419-20
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, (New Haven, 2001), p. 419-20, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=5733, accessed: 25 November 2024
Additional Comments:
See Allen Clarke, "The 'Good Old Days' When Children were Bred for the Factories" and other articles in the Liverpool Weekly Post (from April-July 1934)
