| Evidence: | 'Her first WEA summer scool at the end of the First World War, was "a new and undreamt-of experience... We argued over Wilson's Fourteen Points and in literary sessions read and explored Browning's poems. It was a strange joy to browse overthe niceties of Bishop Blougram's Apology or to delve into the intricacies of The Ring and the Book... It was a month of almost complete happiness; a pinnacle of joy never to be quite reached again".' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1918 and 31 Dec 1918 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | other location: WEA Summer School | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Alice Foley |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| 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: | n/a |
| Author: | Robert Browning |
| Title: | 'Bishop Blougram's Apology' |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | reading group |
| Record ID: | 1448 | |
| 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=1448, accessed: 07 December 2023 | |
| See Alice Foley, 'A Bolton Childhood' (Manchester, 1973) |
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