| Evidence: | 'A Scottish flax dresser gained his "first or incipient idea of localities and distances" when he was assigned to read aloud at work from Anson, Cook, Bruce and Mungo Park' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | "Jacques", a flax dresser |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1803 |
| Socio-economic group: | Labourer (agricultural) |
| Occupation: | flax dresser |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | Scotland |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
other workers |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | James Bruce |
| Title: | Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, In the Years 1768, 1769,1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773. |
| Genre: | Geography / Travel |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 4588 | |
| 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: | 349 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 349, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4588, accessed: 02 December 2023 | |
| See "Jacques", "Glimpses of a Checquered Life" in The Saturday Evening Commonwealth (Glasgow, 1 Nov 1856) |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)