Evidence: | Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister:
"...I have read Paine, and Valney, and Holyoake, those infidel writers, and have also read the works of Bulwer, Dickens and numbers of others..." |
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Century: | 1800-1849, 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1840 and 31 Dec 1859 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | anon |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | Oct 1830 |
Socio-economic group: | Clergy (includes all denominations) |
Occupation: | son of Wesleyan minister, pickpocket turned patterer |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Edward Bulwer-Lytton |
Title: | n/a |
Genre: | Fiction, Essays / Criticism |
Form of Text: | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 1307 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Henry Mayhew | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | London Labour and the London Poor | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1861 | |
Vol: | 4 | |
Page: | 324 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor (London, 1861), 4, p. 324, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1307, accessed: 01 June 2023 |
probably as adult, but unsure |
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