Evidence: | 'Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays of the Seine, I picked up a Cobbett's French Grammar for a franc, and a pocket dictionary for another. A fellow lodger lent me a Testament and a Telemaque; and to these materials I applied dogedly from six in the morning til dinnertime. I read the Grammar through first, and then made an abridgement of it on a small pack of plain cards... By these means ... I made rapid progress.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | France | ||||||||||
Time: | morning afternoon evening daytime |
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Place: | city: Paris | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Charles Manby Smith |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1804 |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | journeyman printer |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | France |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | William Cobbett |
Title: | [French Grammar] |
Genre: | Education, Textbook / self-education, Reference / General works, foreign language |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 6571 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Charles Manby Smith | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | The working man's way in the world | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1857 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 48 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Charles Manby Smith, The working man's way in the world (London, 1857), p. 48, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6571, accessed: 19 April 2024 |
Around 1825. |
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