Record Number: 8256
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
David Vincent notes how the nineteenth-century handloom weaver Wiliam Farish '"with Walkingham's arithmetic, and a slate and pencil at my side ... used to con over the problems as I worked the treadles"'.
Century:1800-1849, 1850-1899
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Type of Experience(Reader):
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solitary in company unknown
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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:n/a
Socio-Economic Group:Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Occupation:handloom weaver
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Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:arithmetic textbook
Genre:Textbook / self-education, Mathematics
Form of Text:Print: Book
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Source Information:
Record ID:8256
Source:David Vincent
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Title:Bread, Knowledge and Freedom: A Study of Nineteenth-Century Working Class Autobiography
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1981
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Page:125 n.75
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Citation:
David Vincent, Bread, Knowledge and Freedom: A Study of Nineteenth-Century Working Class Autobiography (London, 1981), p. 125 n.75, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=8256, accessed: 25 April 2024
Additional Comments:
Quotation from William Farish, The Autobiography of William Fraish -- the struggles of a handloom weaver with some of his writings (1889) p.45.