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Record 5839

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'It was in the autumn of 1818 that I first becam acquainted with politics and theology. Passing along Briggate one evening, I saw at the corner of Union Court a bill, which stated that the Radical Reformers held their meetings in a room in that court. Curiosity prompted me to go and hear what was going on. I found them reading Woller's Black Dwarf, Carlile's Republican, and Cobbett's Register. I remembered my mother being in the habit of reading Cobbett's Register, and saying she "wondered people spoke so much against it; she saw nothing bad in it, but she saw a great many good things in it." After hearing it read in the the meeting room, I was of my mother's opinion.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 1 Jan 1818 and 31 Dec 1818
Country: n/a
Time: evening: Evening, during the Autumn.
Place: city: Leeds
county: Yorkshire
specific address: Union Court
other location: A Room
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary reactive unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reading Group:Group of 'Radical Reformers', who regularly met in Leeds
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Unknown/NA
Occupation: n/a
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: n/a
Country of experience: n/a
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
James Watson (1799-1874), audience of a meeting of radical reformers.
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Richard Carlile
Title: Republican
Genre: Politics
Form of Text: Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: reading group

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 5839  
Source - Print  
  Author: n/a
  Editor: David Vincent
  Title: Testaments of Radicalism
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1977
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 110
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: David Vincent (ed.), Testaments of Radicalism (London, 1977), p. 110, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5839, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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