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'. |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | From: 1 Jan 1910 | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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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 |
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 |
Record ID: | 5362 | |
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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 |
See Muriel Box, 'Odd Woman Out', (London, 1974) p.72 |
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