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Record 8238

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Thomas Wood, an apprentice mechanic, described the problems he faced [reading] in [...] dark evenings: "I had to read by firelight excepting when I could afford a 1/2d candle, which I used to save to read with in bed. I have read perhaps scores of times till 12.00 or 1 o'clock."'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: unknown
Country: n/a
Time: night
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 Wood
Age Unknown
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1822
Socio-economic group: Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Occupation: Apprentice mechanic
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: n/a
Country of experience: n/a
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
 n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: n/a
Genre: Unknown
Form of Text: Print: Unknown
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 8238  
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: 123
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: David Vincent, Bread, Knowledge and Freedom: A Study of Nineteenth-Century Working-Class Autobiography (London, 1981), p. 123, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=8238, accessed: 02 May 2024

Additional comments:

Quotation from Thomas Wood, The Autobiography of Thomas Wood, 1822-1880 (1956) [MS. written 1878], p.9.

 

 

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