Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Basic Search

Advanced Search

Record 5364

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Domestic servant Dorothy Burnham never read girls' stories ("I found them insipid and meaningless") but she and her older sister were fixated on the "Magnet" to the point of mimicking the school uniform... This partly reflected their new found interest in the opposite sex. Dorothy identified especially with that subversive fellow the Bounder, who smoked, gambled, and even "split an infinitive or two".'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: unknown
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:Dorothy Burnham
Age Child (0-17)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 1915
Socio-economic group: Servant
Occupation: domestic servant
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 Magnet
Genre: Fiction, Children's Lit, Ephemera, comic
Form of Text: Print: Serial / periodical
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: borrowed (private library)
belonged to brother

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 5364  
Source - Print  
  Author: Jonathan Rose
  Editor: n/a
  Title: The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
  Place of Publication: New Haven, London
  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, London, 2001), p. 379, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5364, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

See Dorothy Burnham, 'Dooms of Love' pp.200-01, 212 - no further ref traceable in Rose notes

 

 

Reading Experience Database version 2.0.  Page updated: 27th Apr 2016  3:15pm (GMT)