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Record 1446

Reading Experience:

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'.
Century: 1900-1945
Date: unknown
Country: England
Time: daytime
Place: city: Bolton
other location: Socialist Sunday School
   
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:

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

 

Text Being Read:

Author: John Keats
Title: 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'
Genre: Poetry
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 1446  
Source - Print  
  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=1446, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

See Alice Foley, 'A Bolton Childhood' (Manchester, 1973)

 

 

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