Edna Bold in Manchester - the 1910's, in the afternoon

from The Long and short of it: being the recollections and reminiscences of Edna Bold, pages 45-46:

[Edna Bold’s Aunt Harriet, a talented piano player, strongly shaped her niece’s musical appreciation by taking her and her siblings to the opera. Family friends Jack Corlett and his wife Belle had strong interests in politics and music. They encouraged Edna Bold to become a teacher. Bold remembered her Grandmother’s kitchen as the site of inspiration of her self-education and love of music]

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Edna Bold, The Long and short of it: being the recollections and reminiscences of Edna Bold. In Brunel University Burnett Archive of Working Class Autobiographies, number 2:85, p. 45-46. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1531317210644 accessed: 4 December, 2024

location of experience: Manchester

Listeners

Edna Bold
primary school art teacher
1904-

Listening to

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unspecified sentimental ballads performed by Aunt Harriet, John Corlett

Experience Information

Date/Time the 1910's, in the afternoon
Medium live
Listening Environment in the company of others, in private, indoors

Originally submitted by 5011Henning on Wed, 11 Jul 2018 14:53:31 +0100
Approved on Thu, 23 Aug 2018 17:12:38 +0100