Evidence: | '... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coffee shop in Bear-Street, Leicester-Square. Here I found the additional accommodation of magazines and reviews: for reading the current numbers of which the proprietor made an extra charge of sixpence per month. This charge I was glad to pay, for the sake of reading the "Edinburgh" and "Monthly" Reviews, together with the "Edinburgh", the "European", and the "Monthly" Magazines.
'These, however, I read in the evening, while I took my supper; for I learned to drink coffee at that meal as well as at breakfast time. In addition to the daily newspapers, I also saw here the "Examiner", the "Black Dwarf" and, I think, some other weekly journals.'
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1816 and 31 Dec 1816 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | evening | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London specific address: Bear-Street, Leicester-Square other location: Coffee shop |
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Reader: | Thomas Carter |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 5 Jul 1792 |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | Journeyman tailor |
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: | [n/a] |
Title: | Monthly Magazine |
Genre: | Essays / Criticism |
Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | borrowed (other) Literature of the coffee house |
Record ID: | 7658 | |
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: | 191 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Thomas Carter, Memoirs of a Working Man (London, 1845), p. 191, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=7658, accessed: 25 April 2024 |
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