Evidence: | [Smith joins a reading group of seven with a view to self-improvement] 'We got a good room, with such attendance as we required, at the sum above named; and thus, for sixpence a week each, with an additional three-halfpence in winter time for firing, we had an imperfect, it is true, but still an efficient means of improvement at our command. Here we met nearly three hundred nights in the year, and talked, read, disputed and wrote "de omnibus rebus et quibusdam aliis" until the clock struck eleven.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1824 and 31 Dec 1824 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | county: Devon other location: room at a public 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: | Apprentice printer |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Reading group |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | [unknown] |
Title: | [various] |
Genre: | Unknown |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | reading group |
Record ID: | 7944 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Charles Manby Smith | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Working man's way into the world | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1857 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 14 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Charles Manby Smith, Working man's way into the world (London, 1857), p. 14, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=7944, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
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