| Evidence: | 'Zoe Proctor (b.1867) describes how, during the 1870s, when her father was governor of the County Gaol at Bury St Edmunds, she "could not gain sufficient solitude for reading my little story books and was obliged to use the only secure retreat --the long, narrow W.C."' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1870 and 31 Dec 1879 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Bury St Edmunds county: Suffolk location in dwelling: Water Closet |
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| Reader: | Zoe Proctor |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 1867 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| 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) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | |
| Title: | story books |
| Genre: | Fiction, Children's Lit |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 4644 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Kate Flint | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | The Woman Reader 1837-1914 | |
| Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
| Date of Publication: | 1993 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 196 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Kate Flint, The Woman Reader 1837-1914 (Oxford, 1993), p. 196, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4644, accessed: 27 April 2024 | |
| Quotation from Zoe Proctor, "Life and Yesterday" (1960) 6. |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)