Record Number: 3838

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'At age thirteen or fourteen John Edmonds, who was reading "The Cloister and the Hearth" with a lower-midddle-class girlfriend, asked her how Margaret had become pregnant. (He assumed pregnancy followed automatically from marriage and cohabitation). She laughed, told him he was silly, and offered a "surprisingly accurate" explanation'.

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1924 and 31 Dec 1925

Country:

n/a

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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:

John Edmonds

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1911

Socio-Economic Group:

Unknown/NA

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

n/a

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

girlfriend

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Charles Reade

Title:

The Cloister and the Hearth

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

3838

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:

215

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, (New Haven, 2001), p. 215, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=3838, accessed: 22 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

See John Edmonds "The Lean Years" pp.83-4.