Evidence: | Thomas Carter on reading enabled at his Protestant Dissenting day school, where one master gave him the run of his own library: '"the books were chiefly old and odd volumes of the "Arminian" and the "Gentleman's" Magazines; these, though of but little intrinsic value, were to me a treasure, as they helped to give me a wider and more varied view of many more things than I had previously been able to command. I perused themvery much in the way of those undiscriminating readers who devour "The total grist unsifted, husks and all".' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
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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) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Record ID: | 8211 | |
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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=8211, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
Quotation from Thomas Carter, Memoirs of a Working Man (London, 1845) p.57-8. |
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