| Evidence: | Stephen Duck's self-education by mutual improvement, as recorded by Joseph Spence in 'A Full and Authentick Account of Stephen Duck' (1731): "'He had one Dear Friend [...] They used to Talk and Read together [...] they sometimes studied their Arithmetick together. This Friend had been at Service at [italics]London[end italics] for two or three Years'" (pp.7-8). |
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| Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reading Group: | Stephen Duck and friend |
| Age | Unknown |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Unknown/NA |
| Occupation: | agricultural labourer, and former servant |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | n/a |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | |
| Title: | mathematical texts |
| Genre: | Textbook / self-education, Mathematics (arithmetic) |
| Form of Text: | Print: Unknown |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 8205 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | David Vincent | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Bread, Knowledge and Freedom: A Study of Nineteenth-Century Working Class Autobiography | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1981 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 31 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | David Vincent, Bread, Knowledge and Freedom: A Study of Nineteenth-Century Working Class Autobiography (London, 1981), p. 31, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=8205, accessed: 02 May 2024 | |
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