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Record Number: 7343


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

?A publication of a different description also fell in my way. Mr Hale was a reader of "Cobbett?s Weekly Register", and as I constantly saw the tract lying on the desk at the beginning of the week, I at length read it, and found within its pages far more matter for reflection than, from its unattractive title and appearance, I had expected to find there. The nervous and unmistakeable English of that work there was so withstanding. I thenceforth became as constant a reader of Cobbett?s writings as was my master himself, and was soon, probably, a more ardent admirer of his doctrines than was my employer.?

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1808 and 31 Dec 1808

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Manchester
county: Lancashire
other location: workplace -warehouse

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:

Samuel Bamford

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

28 Feb 1788

Socio-Economic Group:

Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder

Occupation:

warehouseman (hand loom weaver)

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



Text Being Read:

Author:

William Cobbett

Title:

Cobbett's Weekly Register

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Politics

Form of Text:

Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

borrowed (private library)
from employer


Source Information:

Record ID:

7343

Source:

Print

Author:

Samuel Bamford

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Early Days

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1849

Vol:

n/a

Page:

280-1

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Samuel Bamford, Early Days (London, 1849), p. 280-1, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=7343, accessed: 29 March 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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