Evidence: | Upon on of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which display their leafy banners along the quays of the seine, I picked up a Cobbett's French Grammar for a Franc and a pocket dictionary for another. A fellow lodger lent me a Testament and a Telemaque, and to these materials I applied doggedly from six in the morningtill dinner time. I read the grammer through first, and then made an abridgement of it on a small pack of plain cards ... |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 May 1826 and 31 May 1826 | ||||||||||
Country: | France | ||||||||||
Time: | morning: Between 6.00 am and 'dinner time'. daytime: Between 6.00 am and 'dinner time'. |
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Place: | city: Paris location in dwelling: lodging house |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Charles Manby Smith |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1804 |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
Occupation: | Unemployed Printer |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | France |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | William Cobbett |
Title: | A French Grammar, Or plain Instructions for the Le |
Genre: | Textbook / self-education |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 589 | |
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Author: | Charles Manby Smith | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | The Working Man's Way in the World | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1853 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 47 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Charles Manby Smith, The Working Man's Way in the World (London, 1853), p. 47, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=589, accessed: 20 April 2024 |
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