Record Number: 5132

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

"'At seven I had so far profited by her teaching,' wrote the Coventry ribbon weaver Joseph Gutteridge of his dame school teacher, 'as to be able to make out the contents of the local papers, and I derived much pleasure and knowledge from their perusal. Another means of learning that I made use of was the sign-board literature of public-houses and shops.'"

Century:

1800-1849, 1850-1899

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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Joseph Gutteridge

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

public house and shop signs

Genre:

Unknown

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Signboard

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

read in situ

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Source Information:

Record ID:

5132

Source:

Print

Author:

David Vincent

Editor:

n/a

Title:

The Rise of Mass Literacy: Reading and Writing in Moderrn Europe

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

2000

Vol:

n/a

Page:

95-96

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

David Vincent, The Rise of Mass Literacy: Reading and Writing in Moderrn Europe (Oxford, 2000), p. 95-96, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=5132, accessed: 19 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Quotation from J. Gutteridge, Lights and Shadows in the Life of an Artisan (Coventry, 1893), republished in Master and Artisan in Victorian England, ed. and intro. V. E. Chancellor (London, 1969) 85.