Evidence: | 'Ellice Hopkins ... writing about Nottingham, decribed the operation of the "Girls' Movement" there ... She claimed that the Recreative Evening Homes were an alternative to pubs, and described how the girls were fond of being read to, "listening quietly to a pathetic or comic story, either in prose or poetry."' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1885 and 31 Dec 1887 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | evening | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Nottingham county: Nottinghamshire |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | anon |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Unknown |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Unknown/NA |
Occupation: | n/a |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | n/a |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Local girls attending Recreative Evening Home |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | |
Title: | stories |
Genre: | Fiction, Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Unknown |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 4604 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Kate Flint | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | The Woman Reader 1837-1914 | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 1993 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 111 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Kate Flint, The Woman Reader 1837-1914 (Oxford, 1993), p. 111, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4604, accessed: 25 April 2024 |
Quotation from Ellice Hopkins, "Girls' Clubs and Recreative Evening Homes" (1887) 33. |
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