| Evidence: | 'An emancipated working woman like Elizabeth Ring was free to read the works of Freud, Havelock Ellis and Bertrand Russell in the late 1920s, but she was familiar with these books only because her schoolteachers had her exchange them at the Finsbury Public Library'. |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1925 and 1930 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: London | ||||||||||
| Type of Experience (Reader): |
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| Reader: | Elizabeth Ring |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
| Occupation: | worked in an office |
| 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: | Sigmund Freud |
| Title: | n/a |
| Genre: | Social Science, psychoanalysis |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | borrowed (public library) |
| Record ID: | 3856 | |
| 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: | 219 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 219, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3856, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
| See Elizabeth Ring, 'Up the Cockneys!' (London, 1975) pp.61-3 |
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