Evidence: | "And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's Penny Times' to Cobbett's Works, 'French without a Master,' together with English, Roman, and Grecian history." |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1833 and 1835 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Gerald Massey |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 29 May 1828 |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | Chartist poet and prose writer; at the time errand boy |
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: | William Cobbett |
Title: | Works |
Genre: | Fiction, Social Science, Autobiog / Diary, Geography / Travel |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 5414 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Gerald Massey | |
Editor: | Samuel Smiles | |
Title: | Poetical Works | |
Place of Publication: | n/a | |
Date of Publication: | 1861 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | xii | |
Additional comments: | The quotation comes from Samuel Smiles' introduction to Massey's "Poetical Works", entitled "A Biographical Sketch of Gerald Massey, 1851 (when he was only 23)". |
Citation: | Gerald Massey, Samuel Smiles (ed.), Poetical Works (1861), p. xii, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5414, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
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