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Record 4354

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's Sybil, Mary Barton, Jude the Obscure, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Under the Greenwood Tree, Tennyson's The Princess, Longfellow, Whitman, Burns, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, George Sand, the Brontes, Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame'.
Century: 1900-1945
Date: unknown
Country: n/a
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:Helen Crawfurd
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 1877
Socio-economic group: Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Occupation: Communist Party member and sufragette, minister's wife
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: Scotland
Country of experience: n/a
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Title: n/a
Genre: Poetry
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 4354  
Source - Print  
  Author: Jonathan Rose
  Editor: n/a
  Title: The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
  Place of Publication: New Haven
  Date of Publication: 2001
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 318
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 318, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4354, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

See Helen Crawfurd, TS autobiography - further reference not traceable in Rose notes.

 

 

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