| Evidence: | Thomas Carter on reading enabled at the dame-school run by his mother: '"I [...] gained some profit as well as pleasure by there coming under my mother's care, being thereby enabled to peruse several small books belonging to the children, which otherwise would not have come in my way."' |
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| Century: | 1700-1799, 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Thomas Carter |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1792 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | n/a |
| 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: | |
| Title: | books |
| Genre: | Unknown |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | borrowed (other) |
| Record ID: | 8209 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | David Vincent | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Bread, Knowledge and Freedom: A Study of Nineteenth-Century Working-Class Autobiography | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1981 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 117 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | David Vincent, Bread, Knowledge and Freedom: A Study of Nineteenth-Century Working-Class Autobiography (London, 1981), p. 117, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=8209, accessed: 23 April 2024 | |
| Quotation from Thomas Carter, Memoirs of a Working Man (London, 1845) p.40. |
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