Evidence: | ?If I did not at that time educate myself, I at least did the next best thing. I tried to. English was picked up from Cobbett; the lessons in Cassell?s "Popular Educator" offered some insight into Latin; French was studied from the same pages in conjunction with another youth; and arrangements were made with an enthusiastic disciple of Isaac Pitman to plunge the depths of phonography when a change of circumstances cast these and all other educational projects to the winds.? |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Cheltenham | ||||||||||
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Reader: | William Edwin Adams |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | Feb 1832 |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | Errand boy, later journalist |
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: | John Cobbett |
Title: | Cobbett's Grammar |
Genre: | Education, Textbook / self-education, Reference / General works |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 7361 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | William Edwin Adams | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Memoirs of a Social Atom | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1903 | |
Vol: | 1 | |
Page: | 112-3 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | William Edwin Adams, Memoirs of a Social Atom (London, 1903), 1, p. 112-3, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=7361, accessed: 25 April 2024 |
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