Evidence: | 'Charles Shaw's dependance upon a small Sunday school library in Tunstall [...] imparted a magnificent if involuntary scope to his education:
'"I read "Robinson Crusoe" and a few other favourite boys' books [...] After these the most readable I could find was Rollin's "Ancient History". His narratives opened a new world [...] [which] I regarded as remote from Tunstall and England as those other worlds I read of in Dick's "Christian Philosopher," which book I found in the library too ... Then I read Milton's "Paradise Lost", Klopstock's "Messiah", and later on, Pollock's "Course of Time", and Gilfillan's "Bards of the Bible".These books may look a strange assortment for a boy of fourteen or fifteen to read, but [...] they just happened to fall into my hands"'. |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Tunstall | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Charles Shaw |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | n/a |
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: | John Milton |
Title: | Paradise Lost |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | borrowed (institution library) |
Record ID: | 8228 | |
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: | 119-20 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | David Vincent, Bread, Knowledge and Freedom: A Study of Nineteenth-Century Working-Class Autobiography (London, 1981), p. 119-20, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=8228, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
Quotation from (Charles Shaw), When I Was a Child by An Old Potter (London, 1903) p.218. |
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