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Record 4839

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
"The suffragette, Annie Kenney (b.1879), looking back to her girlhood working in a Lancashire factory recalls ... going shares in a weekly girls' paper, 'full of wild romance, centred round titles, wealth, Mayfair, dukes and factory girls. The one whose turn it was to pay had the first read'."
Century: 1850-1899
Date: unknown
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: county: Lancashire
   
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:

Reading Group:Annie Kenney and co-workers
Age Child (0-17)
Gender Female
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Labourer (non-agricultural)
Occupation: Factory workers
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: n/a
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: weekly girls' paper
Genre: Fiction, Miscellany / Anthology
Form of Text: Print: Serial / periodical
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: reading group

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 4839  
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: 232
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Kate Flint, The Woman Reader: 1837-1914 (Oxford, 1993), p. 232, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4839, accessed: 02 May 2024

Additional comments:

Quotation from Annie Kenney, Memoirs of a Militant (1924) 16.

 

 

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