Evidence: | My desire for information was however too strong to be turned aside and often have I been sent away from a book stall when the owner became offended at my standing reading which I used to do until I was turned away, as often as I found a surgical book, I used to borrow books from a man who kept a small shop in Maiden Lane Covent Garden leaving a small sum as a deposit and paying a trifle for reading them, having only one at a time. |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1783 and 31 Dec 1789 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Francis Place |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 3 Nov 1771 |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
Occupation: | apprentice to leather breeches maker |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | |
Title: | various |
Genre: | n/a |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | Borrowed (circulating library) |
Record ID: | 2071 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Francis Place | |
Editor: | Mary Thale | |
Title: | The Autobiography of Franis Place (1771-1854) | |
Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
Date of Publication: | 1972 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 47 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Francis Place, Mary Thale (ed.), The Autobiography of Franis Place (1771-1854) (Cambridge, 1972), p. 47, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=2071, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
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