Evidence: | 'Lancashire weaver Elizabeth Blackburn... proceeded to an evening institute course in English literature and by the rhythm of the looms she memorised all of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind", Milton's Lycidas, and Gray's Elegy. She discovered the ancient Greeks at the home of a neighbour, a self-educated classicist with six children, and a Sunday school teacher introduced her to the plays of Bernard Shaw. While attending her looms she silently analysed the character of Jane Eyre's Mr Rochester, "sometimes to the detriment of my weaving".' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1902 and 31 Dec 1932 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | county: Lancashire other location: at a mill |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Elizabeth Blackburn |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 1902 |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
Occupation: | weaver |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Thomas Gray |
Title: | Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 2826 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Jonathan Rose | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes | |
Place of Publication: | New Haven | |
Date of Publication: | 2001 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 163 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 163, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=2826, accessed: 08 May 2024 |
See Elizabeth K. Blackburn, 'In and Out the Windows' (Burnley, n.d.); and 'When I was a Little Girl: A Bunch of Childhood Memories' (Burnley, n.d.) |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)