| Evidence: | Henry Mayhew interviews a regular scavager:
"No, I can't say I was sorry when I was forced to be idle that way, that I hadn't kept up my reading, nor tried to keep it up, because I couldn't then have settled down my mind to read; I know I couldn't. I likes to hear the paper read well enough, if I's resting; but old Bill, as often volunteers to read, has to spell the hard words, so that one can't tell what the devil he's reading about." |
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| Century: | 1800-1849, 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1840 and 31 Dec 1859 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: London other location: probably at the public house |
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| Type of Experience (Reader): |
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| Type of Experience (Listener): |
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| Reader: | Bill |
| 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) |
the regular scavager (concerned with London's rubbish collection) and probably others |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | n/a |
| Title: | [newspaper] |
| Genre: | Ephemera, Reference / General works |
| Form of Text: | Print: Newspaper |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | reading group |
| Record ID: | 1271 | |
| 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: | 225 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor (London, 1861), 2, p. 225, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1271, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
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