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Record Number: 4836


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

"By the age of fifteen ... [Alice Foley] was 'enthusiastically imbibing socialist doctrines arising out of family readings and discussion of the weekly Clarion and Robert Blatchford's publication of Merry England and God and My Neighbour'."

Century:

1850-1899, 1900-1945

Date:

unknown

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Bolton

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:

Reading Group:

family of Alice Foley

Age:

Unknown

Gender:

Unknown

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Labourer (non-agricultural)

Occupation:

Factory and mill 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



Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

The Clarion

Genre:

Politics, Reference / General works

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

4836

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://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=4836, accessed: 02 May 2024


Additional Comments:

Quotation from Alice Foley, A Bolton Childhood (1973) 62.

   
   
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