Evidence: | 'At about age fifteen [Joseph Barker] found an old folio on anatomy and surgery by Helkiah Crooke (physician to James I) and was delighted by "certain parts of the work which treated on subjects whichare generally wrapt in mystery by people, and which my [Yorkshire Methodist] parents would have been least disposed for me to think about or understand." When he indiscreetly shared his knowledge with some friends, there was a general uproar and even death-threats. His angry parents confiscated the book then returned it "on condition that I would paste up two particular parts of it. But I soon took the liberty to break loose the sealed-up parts, and read them again".' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | other location: Yorkshire | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Joseph Barker |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1806 |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | soldier's son |
Religion: | Methodist |
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: | Helkiah Crooke |
Title: | [medical folio] |
Genre: | Textbook / self-education, Medicine |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | Found |
Record ID: | 3358 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Jonathan Rose | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes | |
Place of Publication: | New Haven | |
Date of Publication: | 2001 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 208 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 208, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3358, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
See Joseph Barker, 'History and Confessions of a man, as put forth by himself' (Wortley, 1845), p.119-20. |
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