Evidence: | 'Before leaving the cotton mill I had the good fortune to make my first acquaintance with the earlier works of Charles Dickens. Our manager, who was a reading man, was subscribing to periodically issued numbers of the "Pickwick Papers". He had seen me in the breakfast hour poring over the contents of a dirty rag paper, - not that the matter was dirty, - but the paper itself was oiled, and worn from its being constantly carried about in my pocket. This was "Cleave's Gazette", published weekly at a penny, a sum I managed to screw out of my threepence a fortnight "old brass".' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | morning: in the breakfast hour | ||||||||||
Place: | Hollinwood other location: at work |
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Reader: | Benjamin Brierley |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 26 Jun 1825 |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
Occupation: | a 'piecer' in a cotton mill, later hand-loom weaver and then writer |
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: | [John] [Cleave] |
Title: | Cleave's Weekly Police Gazette |
Genre: | Politics, Law, Ephemera |
Form of Text: | Print: Newspaper |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 17005 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Benjamin Brierley | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Home Memories | |
Place of Publication: | Bramhall | |
Date of Publication: | 2002 (1886) | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 21 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Benjamin Brierley, Home Memories (Bramhall, 2002 (1886)), p. 21, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17005, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
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