Record Number: 6009
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'[Ethel] Mannin was firmly rooted in the autodidact tradition. In her father's library she enjoyed Gissing and Wells, "Adam Bede" and "The Cloister and the Hearth". A Clapham letter-sorter, he collected Nelson's Sevenpenny Classics, which she applauded as "a great boon to poor people"... By age fifteen she was quoting Wilde, Dr Johnson, Francis Bacon, Shakespeare, Milton, Elizabeth Browning, Omar Khayyam, Anatole France, Emily Bronte, Shaw, Hazlitt, Stevenson, W.E. Henley, and Schopenhauer in her commonplace book...Except "Orlando", she read nothing of Virginia Woolf, whom she found "too intellectual, too subtle and complicated and remote from reality"...Mannin made sure to read "Ulysses" (or at least the final chapter) and she admired Gertrude Stein'.
Century:1900-1945
Date:unknown
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: London, Clapham
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:Female
Date of Birth:1900
Socio-Economic Group:Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Occupation:letter-sorter's daughter, later novelist
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:The Cloister and the Hearth
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsNelson's Sevenpenny Classics edition
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:6009
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:445-6
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, (New Haven, 2001), p. 445-6, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=6009, accessed: 08 November 2024
Additional Comments:
See Ethel Manning 'Young in the Twenties' (London,1971) or 'Confessions'