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Record 8211

Reading Experience:

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".'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: unknown
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

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

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: The Gentleman's Magazine
Genre: Essays / Criticism, History, Poetry, Heraldry, Biography, Geography / Travel, Politics, Science, Arts / architecture, Natural history, Miscellany / Anthology, Agriculture / horticulture / husbandry
Form of Text: Print: Serial / periodical
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: borrowed (other)

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 8211  
Source - Print  
  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

Additional comments:

Quotation from Thomas Carter, Memoirs of a Working Man (London, 1845) p.57-8.

 

 

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