Record Number: 3857

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'An emancipated working woman like Elizabeth Ring was free to read the works of Freud, Havelock Ellis and Bertrand Russell in the late 1920s, but she was familiar with these books only because her schoolteachers had her exchange them at the Finsbury Public Library'.

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1925 and 1930

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: London

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:

Elizabeth Ring

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder

Occupation:

worked in an office

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:

Bertrand Russell

Title:

n/a

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Social Science, Philosophy

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

borrowed (public library)

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Source Information:

Record ID:

3857

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:

219

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, (New Haven, 2001), p. 219, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=3857, accessed: 22 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

See Elizabeth Ring, 'Up the Cockneys!' (London, 1975) pp.61-3