Evidence: | 'A big sailor-looking man with red whiskers growing under his chin, advanced to the hearer's desk. Not a word was spoken as the copy-book was handed in. The prison-tutor pointed in silence to a mistake, the pupil nodded, and, on another signal, began to read aloud what he had written, "Give to every man that asketh, and of him that taketh away thy goods, ask him not again".' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1860 and 31 Dec 1862 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | daytime | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London specific address: Coldbath Fields Prison other location: in the schoolroom |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | anon |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
Occupation: | prisoner |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | n/a |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | [unknown] |
Title: | [unknown] |
Genre: | Other religious |
Form of Text: | Manuscript: Sheet |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | borrowed (institution library) copy book belongs to the prison |
Record ID: | 12426 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Henry Mayhew | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | The Criminal Prisons of London | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1862 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 319 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Henry Mayhew, The Criminal Prisons of London (London, 1862), p. 319, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12426, accessed: 18 April 2024 |
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