Evidence: | 'Flora Thompson's village school had no geography books and no formal instruction in geography or history, other than readers offering stock tales about King Alfred and the cakes and King Canute ordering the tide to retreat... her Royal Reader offered thrilling depictions of the Himalayas, the Andes, Greenland, the Amazon, Hudson's Bay and the South Pacific, as well as scenes from Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper. She also remembered borrowing a decrepit copy of Belzoni's Travels and enjoying intensely the excursion through Egyptian archaeology. But she was an unusually self-motivated reader: her less-educated neighbours were only hazily aware of the existence of Oxford, just nineteen miles away.' |
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Century: | 1850-1899, 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between Jan 1880 and Dec 1890 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | daytime | ||||||||||
Place: | county: Oxfordshire | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Flora Thompson |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 5 Dec 1876 |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (agricultural) |
Occupation: | later novelist and poet |
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: | Giovanni Battista Belzoni |
Title: | Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia, &c. |
Genre: | History, Geography / Travel |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | borrowed (other) |
Record ID: | 4578 | |
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: | 347 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 347, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4578, accessed: 28 November 2023 |
See Flora Thompson, Lark Rise to Candleford (1939), pp.33-4, 110 |
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