Record Number: 4839

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

"The suffragette, Annie Kenney (b.1879), looking back to her girlhood working in a Lancashire factory recalls ... going shares in a weekly girls' paper, 'full of wild romance, centred round titles, wealth, Mayfair, dukes and factory girls. The one whose turn it was to pay had the first read'."

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

unknown

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

county: Lancashire

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:

Reading Group:

Annie Kenney and co-workers

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Labourer (non-agricultural)

Occupation:

Factory workers

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

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

weekly girls' paper

Genre:

Fiction, Miscellany / Anthology

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

reading group

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Source Information:

Record ID:

4839

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:

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=4839, accessed: 18 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

Quotation from Annie Kenney, Memoirs of a Militant (1924) 16.