Record Number: 4835
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'[Alice] Foley continued her education by attending night school after going to work full-time in the mill when she was thirteen. She remembers choosing "Jane Eyre" as a prize, attracted by its strange name: "I read the book avidly for it was an enchanting experience in a new romantic world ..."'
Century:1850-1899, 1900-1945
Date:Country:
England
Timen/a
Place:city: Bolton
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:1891
Socio-Economic Group:Labourer (non-agricultural)
Occupation:Mill worker and suffragette
Religion:n/a
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: Title:Jane Eyre
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:4835
Source:Kate Flint
Editor:n/a
Title:The Woman Reader: 1837-1914
Place of Publication:Oxford
Date of Publication:1993
Vol:n/a
Page:232
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
Kate Flint, The Woman Reader: 1837-1914, (Oxford, 1993), p. 232, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=4835, accessed: 05 October 2024
Additional Comments:
Quotation from Alice Foley, A Bolton Childhood (1973) 55.