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William Adams
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[n/a] : Weekly Dispatch
[Adams's grandmother?s nephew sent newspapers to her on weekly basis, first the Weekly Dispatch; this was in time replaced with The Examiner.] ?The substitution of the "Examiner" for the "Dispatch" was not appreciated by the family; but we could not look a gift horse in the mouth, and, besides, we had no means of communicating with the giver?. I revelled as a boy in the politics of the "Dispatch" ? as a youth in the criticisms of the "Examiner".?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edwin Adams Print: Newspaper
[n/a] : The Examiner
[Adams's grandmother?s nephew sent newspapers to her on weekly basis, first the 'Weekly Dispatch'; this was in time replaced with 'The Examiner'.] ?The substitution of the "Examiner" for the "Dispatch" was not appreciated by the family; but we could not look a gift horse in the mouth, and, besides, we had no means of communicating with the giver?. I revelled as a boy in the politics of the "Dispatch" ? as a youth in the criticisms of the "Examiner".?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edwin Adams Print: Newspaper
[n/a] : Chambers's Journal
?There was and is so judicious a blending of light and heavy literature in "Chambers?s Journal" that their periodical has helped to educate, inform and entertain many generations of the British public. Whenever it came in my way, as it did sometimes, I revelled in its pages. The "Penny Magazine" also was a great delight on the rare occasions that I saw it. But I remember best the "Family Herald", "Reynolds?s Miscellany", and Lloyd?s penny dreadfuls.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edwin Adams Print: Serial / periodical
Charles Knight : Penny Magazine
?There was and is so judicious a blending of light and heavy literature in "Chambers?s Journal" that their periodical has helped to educate, inform and entertain many generations of the British public. Whenever it came in my way, as it did sometimes, I revelled in its pages. The "Penny Magazine" also was a great delight on the rare occasions that I saw it. But I remember best the "Family Herald", "Reynolds?s Miscellany", and Lloyd?s penny dreadfuls.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edwin Adams Print: Serial / periodical
[n/a] : Family Herald
?There was and is so judicious a blending of light and heavy literature in "Chambers?s Journal" that their periodical has helped to educate, inform and entertain many generations of the British public. Whenever it came in my way, as it did sometimes, I revelled in its pages. The "Penny Magazine" also was a great delight on the rare occasions that I saw it. But I remember best the "Family Herald", "Reynolds?s Miscellany", and Lloyd?s penny dreadfuls.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edwin Adams Print: Serial / periodical
G.W.M. Reynolds : Reynolds's Miscellany
?There was and is so judicious a blending of light and heavy literature in "Chambers?s Journal" that their periodical has helped to educate, inform and entertain many generations of the British public. Whenever it came in my way, as it did sometimes, I revelled in its pages. The "Penny Magazine" also was a great delight on the rare occasions that I saw it. But I remember best the "Family Herald", "Reynolds?s Miscellany", and Lloyd?s penny dreadfuls.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edwin Adams Print: Serial / periodical
John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress
?Excepting "Pilgrim?s Progress", "Gulliver?s Travels" and the "Arabian Nights", I saw and read none of the books which entrance young minds. The religious meaning of the first, the satirical meaning of the second, and the doubtful meaning of the third were, of course, not understood. The story was the great thing ? the travels of Christian, the troubles of Gulliver, the adventures of Aladdin??
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edwin Adams Print: Book
Jonathan Swift : Gulliver's Travels
?Excepting "Pilgrim?s Progress", "Gulliver?s Travels" and the "Arabian Nights", I saw and read none of the books which entrance young minds. The religious meaning of the first, the satirical meaning of the second, and the doubtful meaning of the third were, of course, not understood. The story was the great thing ? the travels of Christian, the troubles of Gulliver, the adventures of Aladdin??
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edwin Adams Print: Book
anon : Arabian Nights
?Excepting "Pilgrim?s Progress", "Gulliver?s Travels" and the "Arabian Nights", I saw and read none of the books which entrance young minds. The religious meaning of the first, the satirical meaning of the second, and the doubtful meaning of the third were, of course, not understood. The story was the great thing ? the travels of Christian, the troubles of Gulliver, the adventures of Aladdin??
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edwin Adams Print: Book
William Shakespeare : [plays]
?Great was our delight, too, when chance opportunities came in the way of such of us as could read. An opportunity of this kind arrived when a firm of printers in London brought out a penny Shakespeare ? a play of Shakespeare?s for a penny! Well do I remember this cheap treasure. It was my first introduction to the great bard. Gracious! How I devoured play after play as they came out. I was a poor errand boy at the time. When on my errands I used to steal odd moments to read my penny Shakespeare.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edwin Adams Print: Book
Eliot Warburton : Crescent and the Cross
?A situation as an errand boy at a bookseller?s was then found for me. A circulating library was attached to the business. My duties were to clean books and knives and brasses, and then carry books and magazines to the houses of the gentry who were subscribers to the library. The occupation was not uncongenial? for I was able to steal a peep at literature which would not otherwise have come within my reach. The book that was then in greatest demand, as I gathered from so often carrying it from one house to another, was Eliot Warburton?s "Crescent and the Cross", and next to it, I think, came Tennyson?s poems.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edwin Adams Print: Book
Alfred, Lord Tennyson : [poems]
?A situation as an errand boy at a bookseller?s was then found for me. A circulating library was attached to the business. My duties were to clean books and knives and brasses, and then carry books and magazines to the houses of the gentry who were subscribers to the library. The occupation was not uncongenial? for I was able to steal a peep at literature which would not otherwise have come within my reach. The book that was then in greatest demand, as I gathered from so often carrying it from one house to another, was Eliot Warburton?s "Crescent and the Cross", and next to it, I think, came Tennyson?s poems.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edwin Adams Print: Book
Edward Young : The Complaint: or night thoughts
?One Sunday afternoon, the usual call was made for our ramble in the fields. Word was sent to the callers that their old companion was not going to join them. I heard from an upper room, not without a certain amount of tremour, their exclamations of surprise. They wandered off into the fields in one direction; I, with a new companion, wandered off into the fields in another. My new companion was Young?s "Night Thoughts". The old companions were never joined again.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edwin Adams Print: Book
John Cobbett : Cobbett's Grammar
?If I did not at that time educate myself, I at least did the next best thing. I tried to. English was picked up from Cobbett; the lessons in Cassell?s "Popular Educator" offered some insight into Latin; French was studied from the same pages in conjunction with another youth; and arrangements were made with an enthusiastic disciple of Isaac Pitman to plunge the depths of phonography when a change of circumstances cast these and all other educational projects to the winds.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edwin Adams Print: Book
John Cassell : Popular Educator
?If I did not at that time educate myself, I at least did the next best thing. I tried to. English was picked up from Cobbett; the lessons in Cassell?s "Popular Educator" offered some insight into Latin; French was studied from the same pages in conjunction with another youth; and arrangements were made with an enthusiastic disciple of Isaac Pitman to plunge the depths of phonography when a change of circumstances cast these and all other educational projects to the winds.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edwin Adams Print: Newspaper
Thomas Paine : The Rights of Man
?? the shining events in Paris and the newer literature that began to be issued saw the young men of my age wild with excitement and enthusiasm. I had previously read the "Rights of Man" and other political works of Thomas Paine, which had seduced me from bed at five o?clock for many mornings in succession.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edwin Adams Print: Book
[n/a] : Morning Star
?The "Morning Star" was at that time the leading Radical daily in London ? almost the only Radical daily, indeed. It was my custom every morning (Sundays excepted, of course) to buy a copy at a news stall near the Horns Tavern at Kennington. My business was in Fleet Street. ? So orderly was the traffic throughout that route that I could, by keeping to the right, read my paper the whole way. And I had nothing left to read in it ? at least, nothing that I wanted to read ? when I reached Fleet Street, nearly an hour?s walk from Kennington.?
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edwin Adams Print: Newspaper
[n/a] : [penny bloods]
?There was and is so judicious a blending of light and heavy literature in "Chambers?s Journal" that their periodical has helped to educate, inform and entertain many generations of the British public. Whenever it came in my way, as it did sometimes, I revelled in its pages. The "Penny Magazine" also was a great delight on the rare occasions that I saw it. But I remember best the "Family Herald", "Reynolds?s Miscellany", and Lloyd?s penny dreadfuls.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edwin Adams Print: Serial / periodical
Edward Young : The Complaint, and the Consolation, or, Night Thoughts
David Vincent relates how the nineteenth-century apprentice compositor William Adams rejected his usual work associates and walking-companions after discovering Young's "Night Thoughts".
