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Record Number: 4826


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'... [Margaret Cole's] reading at Girton in the early twentieth century influenced her development as a Socialist ... she was shocked by a comment in J. A. Hobson's "The Science of Wealth" to the effect that a certain number of wageless unemployed was a necessary condition of capitalist industry ... "In this mood of altruistic indignation I picked up H. G. Wells's "New Worlds for Old" -- under the misapprehension that it was another scientific romance like "The First Men in the Moon", which had fascinated me years before -- and tumbled straight into Socialism overnight".'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

unknown

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Cambridge
county: Cambridgeshire
specific address: Girton College

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


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Margaret Cole

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

06 05 1893

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Student

Religion:

Anglican

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

J. A. Hobson

Title:

The Science of Wealth

Genre:

Social Science, Economics

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

4826

Source:

Print

Author:

Kate Flint

Editor:

n/a

Title:

The Woman Reader: 1837-1914

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

1993

Vol:

n/a

Page:

229-30

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Kate Flint, The Woman Reader: 1837-1914, (Oxford, 1993), p. 229-30, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=4826, accessed: 09 October 2024


Additional Comments:

Quotation from Margaret Cole, Growing up Into Revolution (1949) 41-3.

   
   
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