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Record 5414

Reading Experience:

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."
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 1833 and 1835
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: London
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

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

 

Text Being Read:

Author: William Cobbett
Title: Works
Genre: Fiction, Social Science, Autobiog / Diary, Geography / Travel
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 5414  
Source - Print  
  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

Additional comments:

 

 

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