Record Number: 3350

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Cutlery worker, age seventy-two...Fond of Longfellow, Stevenson, Ruskin, William Morris and Charles Dickens'

Century:

1850-1899, 1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1846 and 31 Dec 1918

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Sheffield

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:

questionaire respondent

Age:

Unknown

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

1846

Socio-Economic Group:

Labourer (non-agricultural)

Occupation:

cutlery worker

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

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:

John Ruskin

Title:

[unknown]

Genre:

Fiction, Essays / Criticism, Social Science, Arts / architecture

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

3350

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:

192

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, (New Haven, 2001), p. 192, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=3350, accessed: 25 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

See [Arnold Freeman]'The Equipment of the Workers' (London, 1919)