Evidence: | 'Another - a lad with a bandage round his face, and heavy, dingy-coloured eyes - was sent back for having too many blots and errors. This man, when repeating his lessons, stumbled over the sentence "There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth", calling it "genashing" instead.' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1860 and 31 Dec 1862 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | daytime | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London specific address: Coldbath Fields Prison other location: in the schoolroom |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | anon |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
Occupation: | prisoner |
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: | [unknown] |
Title: | [unknown] |
Genre: | Other religious |
Form of Text: | Manuscript: Sheet |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | borrowed (institution library) copy book belongs to the prison |
Record ID: | 12427 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Henry Mayhew | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | The Criminal Prisons of London | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1862 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 319 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Henry Mayhew, The Criminal Prisons of London (London, 1862), p. 319, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12427, accessed: 25 April 2024 |
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