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Record 4278

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'[Edith] Hall recalled that she discovered Thomas Hardy in a WEA class in the 1920s when "Punch and other publications of that kind showed cartoons depicting the servant class as stupid and 'thick'...[Tess of the d'Urbervilles] was the first serious novel I had read up to this time in which the heroine had not been of gentle birth and the labouring classes as brainless automatons. This book made me feel human".'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1920 and 1930
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Edith Hall
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Servant
Occupation: housemaid
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: n/a
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Thomas Hardy
Title: Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 4278  
Source - Print  
  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: 275
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 275, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4278, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

See Edith Hall, 'Canary Girls and Stockpots' (Luton, 1977) pp39-40

 

 

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