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Record Number: 8210


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Thomas Carter on reading enabled at his Protestant Dissenting day school, where one master gave him the run of his own library: '"the books were chiefly old and odd volumes of the "Arminian" and the "Gentleman's" Magazines; these, though of but little intrinsic value, were to me a treasure, as they helped to give me a wider and more varied view of many more things than I had previously been able to command. I perused themvery much in the way of those undiscriminating readers who devour "The total grist unsifted, husks and all".'

Century:

1800-1849

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


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Thomas Carter

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1792

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

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



Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

The Arminian

Genre:

Miscellany / Anthology

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

borrowed (other)


Source Information:

Record ID:

8210

Source:

Print

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:

117

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

David Vincent, Bread, Knowledge and Freedom: A Study of Nineteenth-Century Working-Class Autobiography (London, 1981), p. 117, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=8210, accessed: 29 March 2024


Additional Comments:

Quotation from Thomas Carter, Memoirs of a Working Man (London, 1845) p.57-8.

   
   
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