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Record Number: 8242


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

The nineteenth-century cobbler Thomas Cooper's account of his reading routines: '"Historical reading, or the grammar of some language, or translation, was my first employment on week-day mornings, whether I rose at three or four, until seven o'clock, when I sat down to the stall. A book or a periodical in my hand while I breakfasted, gave me another half-hour's reading, I had another half-hour, and sometimes an hour's reading or study of language, at from one to two o'clock, the hour of dinner -- usually eating my food with a spoon, after I had cut it in pieces, and having my eyes on a book all the time."'

Century:

1800-1849, 1850-1899

Date:

unknown

Country:

n/a

Time

morning

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 Cooper

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder

Occupation:

Cobbler

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

n/a

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

foreign language grammar

Genre:

Textbook / self-education

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

8242

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:

124

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

David Vincent, Bread, Knowledge and Freedom: A Study of Nineteenth-Century Working-Class Autobiography (London, 1981), p. 124, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=8242, accessed: 29 March 2024


Additional Comments:

Quotation from The Life of Thomas Cooper, written by himself (London, 1872) p.59.

   
   
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