Record Number: 1449

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Her first WEA summer school at the end of the First World War, was "a new and undreamt-of experience... We argued over Wilson's Fourteen Points and in literary sessions read and explored Browning's poems. It was a strange joy to browse overthe niceties of Bishop Blougram's Apology or to delve into the intricacies of The Ring and the Book... It was a month of almost complete happiness; a pinnacle of joy never to be quite reached again".'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1918 and 31 Dec 1918

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

other location: WEA Summer School

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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Alice Foley

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

1891

Socio-Economic Group:

Labourer (non-agricultural)

Occupation:

cotton mill worker

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Robert Browning

Title:

'The Ring and the Book'

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

reading group

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Source Information:

Record ID:

1449

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:

54

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, (New Haven, 2001), p. 54, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=1449, accessed: 22 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

See Alice Foley, 'A Bolton Childhood' (Manchester, 1973)