| Evidence: | "'At seven I had so far profited by her teaching,' wrote the Coventry ribbon weaver Joseph Gutteridge of his dame school teacher, 'as to be able to make out the contents of the local papers, and I derived much pleasure and knowledge from their perusal. Another means of learning that I made use of was the sign-board literature of public-houses and shops.'" |
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| Century: | 1800-1849, 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Joseph Gutteridge |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
| Occupation: | n/a |
| 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: | public house and shop signs |
| Genre: | Unknown |
| Form of Text: | Manuscript: Signboard |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | read in situ |
| Record ID: | 5132 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | David Vincent | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | The Rise of Mass Literacy: Reading and Writing in Moderrn Europe | |
| Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
| Date of Publication: | 2000 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 95-96 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | David Vincent, The Rise of Mass Literacy: Reading and Writing in Moderrn Europe (Oxford, 2000), p. 95-96, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5132, accessed: 29 April 2024 | |
| Quotation from J. Gutteridge, Lights and Shadows in the Life of an Artisan (Coventry, 1893), republished in Master and Artisan in Victorian England, ed. and intro. V. E. Chancellor (London, 1969) 85. |
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