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Record 5362

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'As a railway clerk's daughter, Muriel Box enjoyed borrowing her brother's "Magnet", "Gem" and "Boy's Own Paper": she later became a leading feminist activist and pioneer woman film director'.
Century: 1900-1945
Date: From: 1 Jan 1910
Country: n/a
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
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:Muriel Box
Age Child (0-17)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 22 Sep 1907
Socio-economic group: Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Occupation: railway clerk's daughter - later feminist and film director
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: n/a
Country of experience: n/a
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: n/a
Title: The Gem
Genre: Fiction, Children's Lit, Ephemera, comic
Form of Text: Print: Serial / periodical
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: borrowed (private library)
from brother

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 5362  
Source - Print  
  Author: Jonathan Rose
  Editor: n/a
  Title: The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
  Place of Publication: New Haven
  Date of Publication: 2001
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 379
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 379, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5362, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

See Muriel Box, 'Odd Woman Out', (London, 1974) p.72

 

 

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