Evidence: | 'My excellent mother had a fair education - at all events she could read and write fairly well - and she was often asked to read and write letters for neighbours who could not read or write for themselves.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: South Mimms county: Hertfordshire |
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Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Sarah Tinsley |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | wife of gamekeeper |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Neighbours |
Additional comments: | mother of William Tinsley, nee Sarah Dover |
Author: | |
Title: | [letters] |
Genre: | Ephemera |
Form of Text: | Manuscript: Letter |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | read in situ |
Record ID: | 6606 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | William Tinsley | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Random recollections of an old publisher | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1900 | |
Vol: | 1 | |
Page: | 8 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | William Tinsley, Random recollections of an old publisher (London, 1900), 1, p. 8, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6606, accessed: 02 May 2024 |
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