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Record Number: 4604


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Ellice Hopkins ... writing about Nottingham, decribed the operation of the "Girls' Movement" there ... She claimed that the Recreative Evening Homes were an alternative to pubs, and described how the girls were fond of being read to, "listening quietly to a pathetic or comic story, either in prose or poetry."'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1885 and 31 Dec 1887

Country:

England

Time

evening

Place:

city: Nottingham
county: Nottinghamshire

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:

anon

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Unknown

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Unknown/NA

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

England

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

Local girls attending Recreative Evening Home


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

stories

Genre:

Fiction, Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

4604

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:

111

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Kate Flint, The Woman Reader 1837-1914 (Oxford, 1993), p. 111, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=4604, accessed: 29 March 2024


Additional Comments:

Quotation from Ellice Hopkins, "Girls' Clubs and Recreative Evening Homes" (1887) 33.

   
   
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