Evidence: | 'The girls at the hat and cap factory where [Mary Bertenshaw] worked would huddle round at dinner to read Aristotle's Masterpiece over general giggles: "It contained explicit pictures of the developent of a foetus; in turn we read out passages. This went on until our boss Abe interrupted us. We felt so ashamed and from then on kept even further away from the VD clinic and became very dubious about the male sex' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | daytime | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Manchester other location: at place of work |
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Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Mary Bertenshaw |
Age | Unknown |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 1904 |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
Occupation: | factory worker |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
workmates |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | [anon] |
Title: | Aristotle's Masterpiece |
Genre: | Medicine, Reference / General works, sex manual |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 3357 | |
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: | 207 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 207, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3357, accessed: 17 April 2024 |
See Mary Bertenshaw, 'Sunrise to Sunset', (Manchester, 1980) p.99 |
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