Evidence: | 'Gifford had read only some ballads, the black-letter romance Parismus and Parismenus, some odd loose magazines of his mother's, the Bible (which he studied with his grandmother) and "The Imitation of Christ" (read to his mother on her deathbed). He then learned algebra by surreptitiously reading Fenning's textbook: his master's son owned the book and had deliberately hidden it from him'. |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1766 and 31 Dec 1776 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | William Gifford |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1756 |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | shoemaker's apprentice, later man of letters |
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: | anon |
Title: | Parismus and Parismenus |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 5644 | |
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: | 396 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 396, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5644, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
See William Gifford, 'Memoir', pp. 7, 13-19. |
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