Record Number: 3344
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read "David Copperfield", "The Old Curiosity Shop", "Lorna Doone", Louisa May Alcott and the travels of Livingstone and Darwin'.
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Jan 1890 and 31 Dec 1918
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Sheffield
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:Unknown
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:1890
Socio-Economic Group:Labourer (non-agricultural)
Occupation:housewife
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:n/a
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Lorna Doone
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:3344
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:192
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, (New Haven, 2001), p. 192, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=3344, accessed: 05 December 2024
Additional Comments:
See [Arnold Freeman]'The Equipment of the Workers' (London, 1919)