| Evidence: | 'Working class readers continued to enjoy Macaulay's drama and accessibility long after professional historians had declared him obsolete. Kathleen Woodward read Gibbon's Decline and Fall and Macaulay's History of England twice through over factory work, with such absorption she once injured a finger, leaving "an honourable scar".' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: London other location: in a factory |
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| Reader: | Kathleen Woodward |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 1896 |
| Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
| Occupation: | factory 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: | Thomas Babington Macaulay |
| Title: | History of England |
| Genre: | History |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 2761 | |
| 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: | 130 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 130, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=2761, accessed: 04 June 2023 | |
| See Kathleen Woodward, Jipping Street: Childhood in a London Slum (New York, 1928) p.135-8 |
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