Evidence: | Henry Mayhew interviews a street buyer of waste paper:
"The only worldly labour I do on a Sunday is to take my family's dinner to the bakehouse, bring it home after chapel, and read Lloyd's Weekly" |
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Century: | 1800-1849, 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1840 and 31 Dec 1859 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | daytime: afternoon | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London location in dwelling: home |
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Type of Experience (Reader): |
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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: | Street-buyer of waste paper |
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: | Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper |
Genre: | Ephemera |
Form of Text: | Print: Broadsheet, Newspaper |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 1267 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Henry Mayhew | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | London Labour and the London Poor | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1861 | |
Vol: | 2 | |
Page: | 113 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor (London, 1861), 2, p. 113, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1267, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
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