Evidence: | [Alice Foley's illiterate mother objected to silent reading but responded well to Alice's reading of Alice in Wonderland]: "To my surprise, mother entered quite briskly into the activities of the rabbit hole. From that time onwards, I became mother's official reader and almost every day when I returned from school she would say coaxingly, 'Let's have a chapthur'." |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | evening: after school | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Bolton | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Alice Foley |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
Occupation: | n/a |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
her mother |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Lewis Carroll |
Title: | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
Genre: | Fiction, Children's Lit |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | borrowed (public library) |
Record ID: | 1822 | |
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: | 87 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 87, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1822, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
See Alice Foley, 'Bolton Childhood' |
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