Evidence: | 'J. A. Leatherland clubbed together with some like-minded velvet weavers to purchase, "'Harris's Hermes', from which we gained some knowledge of the principles, elements and philosophy of language generally and of the English tongue in particular"'. |
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Century: | 1800-1849, 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reading Group: | Kettering velvet-weavers |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | velvet weavers |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | n/a |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | |
Title: | Harris's Hermes |
Genre: | Textbook / self-education, Language |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 8257 | |
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: | 127 n.85 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | David Vincent, Bread, Knowledge and Freedom: A Study of Nineteenth-Century Working Class Autobiography (London, 1981), p. 127 n.85, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=8257, accessed: 01 May 2024 |
Quotation from J. A. Leatherland, Essays and Poems with a brief Autobiographical Memoir (London, 1862) pp.9-10. |
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