Evidence: | "Anthony Errington, a Tyneside wagonway wright, sat down in 1823 to write out his life history ... After brief accounts of his parents and his infancy, he turned to his education:
"'I Closely attended school to read ... haveing bean one month at school, at diner time I went into the Church yard to read the grave stones.'" |
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Century: | 1700-1799, 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | daytime | ||||||||||
Place: | other location: churchyard | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Anthony Errington |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) wagonway wright |
Occupation: | school pupil |
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: | |
Title: | n/a |
Genre: | Unknown, Inscriptions on grave stones |
Form of Text: | Print: tombstone epitaphs |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | read in situ |
Record ID: | 5129 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | David Vincent | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | The Rise of Mass Literacy: Reading and Writing in Moderrn Europe | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 2000 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 27 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | David Vincent, The Rise of Mass Literacy: Reading and Writing in Moderrn Europe (Oxford, 2000), p. 27, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5129, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
Quotation from A. Errington, Coals on Rails, ed. P. E. H. Hair (Liverpool, 1988) 31-2. |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)