| Evidence: | Harriet Martineau on school life: 'We learned Latin from the old Eton grammar [...] Cicero, Virgil, and a little Horace were our main reading then'. |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1813 and 31 Dec 1818 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Norwich | ||||||||||
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| Reading Group: | Pupils at Mr Perry's school |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Unknown |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Unknown/NA |
| Occupation: | schoolchildren |
| Religion: | unknown, probably Unitarian |
| 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: | Virgil |
| Title: | n/a |
| Genre: | Classics, Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 9605 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Harriet Martineau | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Harriet Martineau's Autobiography | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1877 | |
| Vol: | 1 | |
| Page: | 62 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Harriet Martineau, Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (London, 1877), 1, p. 62, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=9605, accessed: 20 April 2024 | |
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