Record Number: 3377
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'When they were alone at home [Edna Bold] and her cousin Dorothy extracted from the kitchen bookcase and read side by side, a medical book and Foxe's Book of Martyrs. The intertextuality was profoundly scarring: "Childbirth and martyrdom were synonymmous. We suffered the torments of the damned...We never 'reproduced'."'
Century:1900-1945
Date:unknown
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Manchester
location in dwelling: kitchen
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary reactive unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reading Group:Edna Bold and her cousin Dorothy
Age:Child (0-17)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:1904
Socio-Economic Group:Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Occupation:baker's daughter
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
cousin Dorothy
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:[medical book]
Genre:Textbook / self-education, Medicine
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceowned
owned by parents
Source Information:
Record ID:3377
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:212
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, (New Haven, 2001), p. 212, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=3377, accessed: 14 November 2024
Additional Comments:
See Edna Bold's recollections in John Burnett, ed. 'Destiny Obscure' (Harmondsworth, 1984) pp.119-20