Record Number: 3838
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'At age thirteen or fourteen John Edmonds, who was reading "The Cloister and the Hearth" with a lower-midddle-class girlfriend, asked her how Margaret had become pregnant. (He assumed pregnancy followed automatically from marriage and cohabitation). She laughed, told him he was silly, and offered a "surprisingly accurate" explanation'.
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Jan 1924 and 31 Dec 1925
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Type of Experience(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:1911
Socio-Economic Group:Unknown/NA
Occupation:n/a
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Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
girlfriend
Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:The Cloister and the Hearth
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:3838
Source:Jonathan Rose
Editor:n/a
Title:The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
Place of Publication:New Haven
Date of Publication:2001
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Page:215
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, (New Haven, 2001), p. 215, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=3838, accessed: 10 November 2024
Additional Comments:
See John Edmonds "The Lean Years" pp.83-4.