Record Number: 5361
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'As a railway clerk's daughter, Muriel Box enjoyed borrowing her brother's "Magnet", "Gem" and "Boy's Own Paper": she later became a leading feminist activist and pioneer woman film director'.
Century:1900-1945
Date:From: 1 Jan 1910
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Timen/a
Place:n/a
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:Child (0-17)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:22 Sep 1907
Socio-Economic Group:Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Occupation:railway clerk's daughter - later feminist and film director
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:n/a
Country of Experience:n/a
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 Magnet
Genre:Fiction, Children's Lit, Ephemera, comic
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceborrowed (private library)
from brother
Source Information:
Record ID:5361
Source: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:379
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, (New Haven, 2001), p. 379, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=5361, accessed: 29 September 2024
Additional Comments:
See Muriel Box, 'Odd Woman Out', (London, 1974) p.72