Evidence: | 'During the Napoleonic Wars, Scottish cotton-spinner Charles Campbell earned 8s. to 10s. a week, but set aside a few pennies for a subscription library, where he read history, travels and the English classics. He joined a club of twelve men, mainly artisans and mechanics, who met weekly to discuss literary topics'. |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1805 and 1815 | ||||||||||
Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Charles Campbell |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1793 |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
Occupation: | cotton spinner |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | Scotland |
Country of experience: | Scotland |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | |
Title: | [English classics] |
Genre: | Unknown |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | Subscription Library |
Record ID: | 192 | |
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: | 21 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working CLasses (New Haven, 2001), p. 21, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=192, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
See Charles Campbell, "Memoirs of Charles Campbell" (1828) pp.3-6 |
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