Record Number: 31274

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'"An Ex Mill Girl," [Ethel Carnie] who wrote the novel, "Helen of Four Gates," telling an English interviewer of the twenty years she spent in a cotton factory in the North of England, said that she read incessantly in the evening, and during the day while at work had the greatest difficulty keeping "the day me" separate from "the night me." Her thoughts would wander to her books, she would forget about her work, and she would come to herself with a start "to find the bobbins too full, one rubbing against the other, so that it would take hours to right them again."'

Century:

1850-1899, 1900-1945

Date:

Between 1897 and 1911

Country:

England

Time

evening

Place:

city: Great Harwood
county: Lancashire

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:

Ethel Carnie Holdsworth

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

1 Jan 1886

Socio-Economic Group:

Labourer (non-agricultural)

Occupation:

Cotton weaver and Author

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:

unknown unknown

Title:

unknown

Genre:

Unknown

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

31274

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

n/a

Title:

New York Times

Place of Publication:

n/a

Date of Publication:

16 September 1917

Vol:

n/a

Page:

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

New York Times, (16 September 1917), http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=31274, accessed: 25 November 2024

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Additional Comments: