Record Number: 5361

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'As a railway clerk's daughter, Muriel Box enjoyed borrowing her brother's "Magnet", "Gem" and "Boy's Own Paper": she later became a leading feminist activist and pioneer woman film director'.

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

From: 1 Jan 1910

Country:

n/a

Time

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Place:

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Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Muriel Box

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

22 Sep 1907

Socio-Economic Group:

Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder

Occupation:

railway clerk's daughter - later feminist and film director

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

n/a

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

n/a

Title:

The Magnet

Genre:

Fiction, Children's Lit, Ephemera, comic

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

borrowed (private library)
from brother

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Source Information:

Record ID:

5361

Source:

Print

Author:

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:

379

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, (New Haven, 2001), p. 379, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=5361, accessed: 08 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

See Muriel Box, 'Odd Woman Out', (London, 1974) p.72