Record Number: 4826
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'... [Margaret Cole's] reading at Girton in the early twentieth century influenced her development as a Socialist ... she was shocked by a comment in J. A. Hobson's "The Science of Wealth" to the effect that a certain number of wageless unemployed was a necessary condition of capitalist industry ... "In this mood of altruistic indignation I picked up H. G. Wells's "New Worlds for Old" -- under the misapprehension that it was another scientific romance like "The First Men in the Moon", which had fascinated me years before -- and tumbled straight into Socialism overnight".'
Century:1900-1945
Date:unknown
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Cambridge
county: Cambridgeshire
specific address: Girton College
(Reader):
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solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:06 05 1893
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Student
Religion:Anglican
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
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 Science of Wealth
Genre:Social Science, Economics
Form of Text:Print: Book
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Source Information:
Record ID:4826
Source:Kate Flint
Editor:n/a
Title:The Woman Reader: 1837-1914
Place of Publication:Oxford
Date of Publication:1993
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Page:229-30
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Kate Flint, The Woman Reader: 1837-1914, (Oxford, 1993), p. 229-30, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=4826, accessed: 22 November 2024
Additional Comments:
Quotation from Margaret Cole, Growing up Into Revolution (1949) 41-3.
