| Evidence: | Henry Mayhew interviews a penny mouse-trap maker (cripple):
"My daughter is eighteen and my son eleven; that is my boy, sir; he's reading the Family Friend just now. My boy goes to school every evening, and twice on a Sunday. I am willing that they should find as much pleasure from reading as I have in my illness" |
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| Century: | 1800-1849, 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1840 and 31 Dec 1859 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: London location in dwelling: at his lodgings |
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| Type of Experience (Reader): |
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| Type of Experience (Listener): |
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| Reader: | anon |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
| Occupation: | son of penny mouse-trap maker |
| 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: | |
| Title: | Family Friend |
| Genre: | Other religious, Fiction, Ephemera |
| Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 1281 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Henry Mayhew | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | London Labour and the London Poor | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1861 | |
| Vol: | 3 | |
| Page: | 22 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor (London, 1861), 3, p. 22, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1281, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
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