Record Number: 4882

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

"Florence Spong recounted in August 1909: 'As to breaking my [prison] cell window, I told them I only followed the advice given in the book, placed in my cell, entitled 'A Healthy Home, and How to Keep It.' In this book it stated that windows must be open both top and bottom, otherwise one laid oneself open to many dreadful diseases, including consumption'."

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

unknown

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: London
specific address: HMP Holloway

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:

Reader:

Florence Spong

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

A Healthy Home, and How to Keep It

Genre:

Housekeeping

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

read in situ

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Source Information:

Record ID:

4882

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:

246

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Kate Flint, The Woman Reader: 1837-1914 (Oxford, 1993), p. 246, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=4882, accessed: 02 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

Quotation from Florence Spong, "My Mutiny and Hunger Strike," Votes For Women (13 August 1909) 1055.