Evidence: | 'Domestic servant Dorothy Burnham never read girls' stories ("I found them insipid and meaningless") but she and her older sister were fixated on the "Magnet" to the point of mimicking the school uniform... This partly reflected their new found interest in the opposite sex. Dorothy identified especially with that subversive fellow the Bounder, who smoked, gambled, and even "split an infinitive or two".' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Dorothy Burnham |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 1915 |
Socio-economic group: | Servant |
Occupation: | domestic servant |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | n/a |
Country of experience: | n/a |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | n/a |
Title: | The Magnet |
Genre: | Fiction, Children's Lit, Ephemera, comic |
Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | borrowed (private library) belonged to brother |
Record ID: | 5364 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Jonathan Rose | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes | |
Place of Publication: | New Haven, London | |
Date of Publication: | 2001 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 379 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, London, 2001), p. 379, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5364, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
See Dorothy Burnham, 'Dooms of Love' pp.200-01, 212 - no further ref traceable in Rose notes |
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