Evidence: | 'She [his aunt] did not allow me to be idle, but alternately employed me in helping to knit stockings and in reading. While I was unemployed I found a never-failing source of amusement in scanning the gortesque figures and scenes delineated upon the Dutch tiles with which the chimney corners were decorated. I believe that these pictures, rude as they were, helped me a little better to understand what I read to her out of the Bible and other religious books. I believe that these readings were rather useful to me otherwise; but this perhaps arose partly from the pains she took to indulge my fancy in other matters, and partly also from the motherly way in which she endeavoured to make me understand what I read.' |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1797 and 31 Dec 1798 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | location in dwelling other location: Aunt's house |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Thomas Carter |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 5 Jul 1792 |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
Occupation: | Son of a soldier |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
His aunt (by marriage). |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | [n/a] |
Title: | Bible |
Genre: | Bible |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | borrowed (private library) |
Record ID: | 7383 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Thomas Carter | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Memoirs of a Working Man | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1845 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 19 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Thomas Carter, Memoirs of a Working Man (London, 1845), p. 19, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=7383, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
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