| Evidence: | ?[my master] also was a good scholar and took great pains to teach me in reading and here I made a Considerable progress in reading for although I had heedlessly neglected learning yet I had not lost my taste for it nor forgot the importance of it?. |
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| Century: | 1700-1799, 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1799 and 31 Dec 1800 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Joseph Mayett |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 12 Mar 1783 |
| Socio-economic group: | Labourer (agricultural) |
| Occupation: | Servant / gardner |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Master |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | [unknown] |
| Title: | [various] |
| Genre: | Unknown |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 7377 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Joseph Mayett | |
| Editor: | Ann Kussmaul | |
| Title: | The autobiography of Joseph Mayett of Quainton | |
| Place of Publication: | Buckinghamshire | |
| Date of Publication: | 1986 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 8 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Joseph Mayett, Ann Kussmaul (ed.), The autobiography of Joseph Mayett of Quainton (Buckinghamshire, 1986), p. 8, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=7377, accessed: 06 June 2023 | |
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