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Record 4604

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Ellice Hopkins ... writing about Nottingham, decribed the operation of the "Girls' Movement" there ... She claimed that the Recreative Evening Homes were an alternative to pubs, and described how the girls were fond of being read to, "listening quietly to a pathetic or comic story, either in prose or poetry."'
Century: 1850-1899
Date: Between 1 Jan 1885 and 31 Dec 1887
Country: England
Time: evening
Place: city: Nottingham
county: Nottinghamshire
   
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

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader: anon
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Unknown
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, workmates)
Local girls attending Recreative Evening Home
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: stories
Genre: Fiction, Poetry
Form of Text: Print: Unknown
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 4604  
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: 111
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Kate Flint, The Woman Reader 1837-1914 (Oxford, 1993), p. 111, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4604, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

Quotation from Ellice Hopkins, "Girls' Clubs and Recreative Evening Homes" (1887) 33.

 

 

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