| Evidence: | "Alice Foley's father was an often drunk, sometimes violent Irish factory worker in Bolton, but when 'in sober mood, he read aloud to the family the novels of Dickens and George Eliot'." |
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| Century: | 1850-1899, 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Bolton | ||||||||||
| Type of Experience (Reader): |
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| Type of Experience (Listener): |
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| Reader: | anon |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
| Occupation: | Factory worker |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | Ireland |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Family members |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | George Eliot |
| Title: | novels |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 4834 | |
| 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: | 231 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Kate Flint, The Woman Reader: 1837-1914 (Oxford, 1993), p. 231, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4834, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
| Quotation from Alice Foley, A Bolton Childhood (1973) 12. |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)