Evidence: | [Alice Foley] read some Morris and less Marx, but for her a liberal education for the proletariat was not merely a means of achieving socialism: it was socialism in fact. At night school she staged a personal revolution by writing a paper on Romeo and Juliet and thriling to the "new romantic world" of Jane Eyre. She joined a Socialist Sunday School where 'Hiawatha' was recited for its "prophetic idealism", and a foundry hammerman intoned Keats's 'Eve of St Agnes and 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'. |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | daytime | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Bolton other location: Socialist Sunday School |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Listener: | Alice Foley |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 1891 |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
Occupation: | cotton mill worker |
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: | reader was a foundry hammerman |
Author: | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
Title: | Hiawatha |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 1445 | |
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: | 54 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 54, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1445, accessed: 02 June 2023 |
See Alice Foley, 'A Bolton Childhood' (Manchester, 1973) |
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