| Evidence: | 'In a Sunday school library set up by a cotton mill fire-beater, [Thomas Thompson] read Dickens, Thackeray, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Marcus Aurelius' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | county: Lancashire other location: Sunday School Library |
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| Reader: | Thomas Thompson |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1880 |
| Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
| Occupation: | mill-worker |
| 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: | Marcus Aurelius |
| Title: | [Meditations]? |
| Genre: | Politics, Philosophy |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | read in situ |
| Record ID: | 1463 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Jonathan Rose | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes | |
| Place of Publication: | New Haven | |
| Date of Publication: | 2001 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 57 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 57, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1463, accessed: 05 December 2023 | |
| See Thomas Thompson, 'Lancashire For Me' (1940) pp.22-5 |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)