Record Number: 5364

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Domestic servant Dorothy Burnham never read girls' stories ("I found them insipid and meaningless") but she and her older sister were fixated on the "Magnet" to the point of mimicking the school uniform... This partly reflected their new found interest in the opposite sex. Dorothy identified especially with that subversive fellow the Bounder, who smoked, gambled, and even "split an infinitive or two".'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

unknown

Country:

n/a

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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Dorothy Burnham

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

1915

Socio-Economic Group:

Servant

Occupation:

domestic servant

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

n/a

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

n/a

Title:

The Magnet

Genre:

Fiction, Children's Lit, Ephemera, comic

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

borrowed (private library)
belonged to brother

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Source Information:

Record ID:

5364

Source:

Print

Author:

Jonathan Rose

Editor:

n/a

Title:

The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes

Place of Publication:

New Haven, London

Date of Publication:

2001

Vol:

n/a

Page:

379

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, London, 2001), p. 379, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=5364, accessed: 23 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

See Dorothy Burnham, 'Dooms of Love' pp.200-01, 212 - no further ref traceable in Rose notes