Evidence: | The nineteenth-century cobbler Thomas Cooper's account of his reading routines:
'"Historical reading, or the grammar of some language, or translation, was my first employment on week-day mornings, whether I rose at three or four, until seven o'clock, when I sat down to the stall. A book or a periodical in my hand while I breakfasted, gave me another half-hour's reading, I had another half-hour, and sometimes an hour's reading or study of language, at from one to two o'clock, the hour of dinner -- usually eating my food with a spoon, after I had cut it in pieces, and having my eyes on a book all the time."' |
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Century: | 1800-1849, 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
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Time: | morning | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Thomas Cooper |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | Cobbler |
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 |
Author: | |
Title: | foreign language grammar |
Genre: | Textbook / self-education |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 8242 | |
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: | 124 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | David Vincent, Bread, Knowledge and Freedom: A Study of Nineteenth-Century Working-Class Autobiography (London, 1981), p. 124, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=8242, accessed: 20 April 2024 |
Quotation from The Life of Thomas Cooper, written by himself (London, 1872) p.59. |
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