Evidence: | A reminiscence of reading John Ruskin's autobiography, Praeterita (pub 1881-6) at work. Published in The Wheatsheaf:
'Long ago, with the engine groaning below the wooden, dusty floor of a hot winding-room in a cotton factory, I read the description of a little wood overhanging the Falls of Schaffhausen. Ruskin had written it; and in his words was the beat of the waters and the colour of the flowers, and I longed to see the reality. Yet his description is only the shadow of the real glory of those Schaffhausen meadows'. |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Great Harwood, Blackburn county: Lancashire |
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Reader: | Ethel Carnie |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 1 Jan 1886 |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
Occupation: | Former factory worker (Lancashire cotton mills) and later journalist |
Religion: | unknown |
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: | John Ruskin |
Title: | Praeterita |
Genre: | Autobiog / Diary |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 15739 | |
Source - | Manuscript | Other |
Author: | Ethel Carnie, 'Freiburg to Schaffhausen', The Wheatsheaf, September 1911, 37, |
Citation: | Ethel Carnie, 'Freiburg to Schaffhausen', The Wheatsheaf, September 1911, 37, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=15739, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
Ethel Carnie (1886-1962) (known as Ethel Carnie Holdsworth after her marriage) worked in mills in Great Harwood, Blackburn, Lancashire between 1897 and 1908. She worked for Robert Blatchford's The Woman Worker from July 1908 to 1910, and was its editor from July-December 1909. She travelled in Europe between 1911 and 1912. |
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