Evidence: | 'Thomas Wood, an apprentice mechanic, described the problems he faced [reading] in [...] dark evenings: "I had to read by firelight excepting when I could afford a 1/2d candle, which I used to save to read with in bed. I have read perhaps scores of times till 12.00 or 1 o'clock."' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
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Time: | night | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Thomas Wood |
Age | Unknown |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1822 |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | Apprentice mechanic |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | n/a |
Country of experience: | n/a |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | |
Title: | n/a |
Genre: | Unknown |
Form of Text: | Print: Unknown |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 8238 | |
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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: | 123 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | David Vincent, Bread, Knowledge and Freedom: A Study of Nineteenth-Century Working-Class Autobiography (London, 1981), p. 123, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=8238, accessed: 02 May 2024 |
Quotation from Thomas Wood, The Autobiography of Thomas Wood, 1822-1880 (1956) [MS. written 1878], p.9. |
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