| Evidence: | [imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted against pirates along with Jim Hawkins and I have trembled with Jane Eyre as the first Mrs Rochester rent her bridal veil in maddened jealousy. I have been shipwrecked with Masterman Ready and on Pitcairn Island with Fletcher Christian. I have been a medieval page in Sir Nigel and Lorna Doone madly in love with 'girt Jan Ridd'". |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Margaret Wharton |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
| Occupation: | chauffeur's daughter |
| 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: | Richard Doddridge Blackmore |
| Title: | Lorna Doone |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 5370 | |
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| 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: | 380 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, London, 2001), p. 380, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5370, accessed: 07 December 2023 | |
| See Margaret Wharton, 'Recollections of a GI War Bride: A Wiltshire Childhood' (Gloucester, 1984) pp. 81-2 |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)