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'." |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | county: Lancashire | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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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) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | |
Title: | weekly girls' paper |
Genre: | Fiction, Miscellany / Anthology |
Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | reading group |
Record ID: | 4839 | |
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: | 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 |
Quotation from Annie Kenney, Memoirs of a Militant (1924) 16. |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)