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Record Number: 7731


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'We belong to our time and the most we can achieve as a rule is to be a generation ahead of it; if we tear up our roots how many can exist merely on air? Yet if people want to know what life was like for a poor scholar in one of the most opulent centuries England has known, they cannot do better than to study Molly?s [Hughes, A London Child of the Seventies] books. They are a record of an almost hopeless fight against prejudice when there was little chance for a woman, however brilliant her intellect, to get even a reasonably paid job. Today people find the Victorian age picturesque and amusing without understanding its cruelty. If they want a true photograph of part of it, they should consider what Molly had recorded.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1940 and 31 Dec 1946

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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:

Bryher

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

2 Sep 1894

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer and critic

Religion:

unknown

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:

Molly V Hughes

Title:

London Child of the Seventies, A

Genre:

Autobiog / Diary

Form of Text:

Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

7731

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

n/a

Title:

The Days of Mars: A Memoir, 1940-1946

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1972

Vol:

n/a

Page:

37

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Bryher, The Days of Mars: A Memoir, 1940-1946, (London, 1972), p. 37, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=7731, accessed: 05 October 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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