Evidence: | Lancashire workman wrote to Cassell's that the first 23 volumes of the National Library "have done a great deal of good even in my own neighbourhood, for several of my own friends have given up drinking for the sake of taking and reading your beautiful little books". |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1880 and 31 Dec 1889 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | county: Lancashire | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reading Group: | several Lancashire workman |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
Occupation: | n/a |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | n/a |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | [n/a] |
Title: | Cassell's National Library (first 23 vols) |
Genre: | Unknown |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 11272 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | n/a | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Publishers' Circular | |
Place of Publication: | n/a | |
Date of Publication: | 1 July 1886 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 725 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Publishers' Circular (1 July 1886), p. 725, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=11272, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)