Posted by Peter Ceresole on June 07, 2014 at 01:52:30 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Re: Arthur's voice posted by Peter Hyland on June 06, 2014 at 13:17:09:
I write all this to show that casual assumptions about the slave trade, class and “cut glass accents” are not good enough when we are attempting to piece together the history of AR’s social life.
What casual assumptions? I wrote that Liverpool had benefited 'in part' from the slave trade, and that's true. English class is a long established, pervasive system about which there is no doubt whatsoever, of which I am a part, and which I have observed at close quarters when making programmes all over England. And 'cut glass' accents are a reality, even now in some people, and we have AR's actual Edwardian enunciation to go on.
And don't we have quite a lot about AR's social origins from his own non-fiction writing? And a number of well researched biographies?
Honestly, I think that you may protest too much.