Record Number: 3371
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Margaret Wharton's parents were highly literate, and with their encouragement she entered a teaching training college in 1936, but they taught her nothing about sex: "Though we read books like 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles' and 'Hatter's Castle' both dealing with defloration of innocence and an ultimate baby, we drew no parallels and made no application to ourselves. I even read Radclyffe Hall's classic story of lesbianism, The Well of Loneliness, without having the faintest idea of what it was about'.
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Jan 1917 and 31 Dec 1936
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Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:1917
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:training to be a teacher
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Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:The Well of Loneliness
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
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Source Information:
Record ID:3371
Source:Jonathan Rose
Editor:n/a
Title:The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
Place of Publication:New Haven
Date of Publication:2001
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Page:210
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, (New Haven, 2001), p. 210, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=3371, accessed: 17 August 2024
Additional Comments:
See Margaret Wharton, 'Recollections of a GI War Bride: A Wiltshire Childhood' (Gloucester, 1984) pp.132-3