Evidence: | 'We belong to our time and the most we can achieve as a rule is to be a generation ahead of it; if we tear up our roots how many can exist merely on air? Yet if people want to know what life was like for a poor scholar in one of the most opulent centuries England has known, they cannot do better than to study Molly?s [Hughes, A London Child of the Seventies] books. They are a record of an almost hopeless fight against prejudice when there was little chance for a woman, however brilliant her intellect, to get even a reasonably paid job. Today people find the Victorian age picturesque and amusing without understanding its cruelty. If they want a true photograph of part of it, they should consider what Molly had recorded.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1940 and 31 Dec 1946 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Bryher |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 2 Sep 1894 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Writer and critic |
Religion: | unknown |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Molly V Hughes |
Title: | London Child of the Seventies, A |
Genre: | Autobiog / Diary |
Form of Text: | Unknown |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 7731 | |
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Author: | n/a | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | The Days of Mars: A Memoir, 1940-1946 | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1972 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 37 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Bryher, The Days of Mars: A Memoir, 1940-1946 (London, 1972), p. 37, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=7731, accessed: 20 April 2024 |
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