| Evidence: | 'When they were alone at home [Edna Bold] and her cousin Dorothy extracted from the kitchen bookcase and read side by side, a medical book and Foxe's Book of Martyrs. The intertextuality was profoundly scarring: "Childbirth and martyrdom were synonymmous. We suffered the torments of the damned...We never 'reproduced'."' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Manchester location in dwelling: kitchen |
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| Reader: | Edna Bold |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 1904 |
| Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
| Occupation: | baker's daughter |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
cousin Dorothy |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | [unknown] |
| Title: | [medical book] |
| Genre: | Textbook / self-education, Medicine |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | owned owned by parents |
| Record ID: | 3377 | |
| 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: | 212 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 212, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3377, accessed: 20 April 2024 | |
| See Edna Bold's recollections in John Burnett, ed. 'Destiny Obscure' (Harmondsworth, 1984) pp.119-20 |
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