Record Number: 5364
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Domestic servant Dorothy Burnham never read girls' stories ("I found them insipid and meaningless") but she and her older sister were fixated on the "Magnet" to the point of mimicking the school uniform... This partly reflected their new found interest in the opposite sex. Dorothy identified especially with that subversive fellow the Bounder, who smoked, gambled, and even "split an infinitive or two".'
Century:1900-1945
Date:unknown
Country:n/a
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:1915
Socio-Economic Group:Servant
Occupation:domestic servant
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)
belonged to brother
Source Information:
Record ID:5364
Source:Jonathan Rose
Editor:n/a
Title:The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
Place of Publication:New Haven, London
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, London, 2001), p. 379, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=5364, accessed: 30 September 2024
Additional Comments:
See Dorothy Burnham, 'Dooms of Love' pp.200-01, 212 - no further ref traceable in Rose notes