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Record 4612

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Girls in the top forms [at Roedean] were allowed to read ... in a small school library ... but ... [Margaret Cole] forfeited that privilege when a sub-prefect reported her for reading Macaulay's "Essays" during preparation time ...'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1 Jan 1907 and 31 Dec 1914
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Brighton
county: Sussex
specific address: Roedean School
   
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:Margaret Cole
Age Unknown
Gender Female
Date of Birth 6 May 1893
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: School pupil
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

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
Title: Essays
Genre: Essays / Criticism
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 4612  
Source - Print  
  Author: Kate Flint
  Editor: n/a
  Title: The Woman Reader 1837-1914
  Place of Publication: Oxford
  Date of Publication: 1993
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 130
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Kate Flint, The Woman Reader 1837-1914 (Oxford, 1993), p. 130, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4612, accessed: 25 April 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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