Evidence: | 'Both John Harris and Mary Smith read the "Remains of Henry Kirke White" "with great delight", and Thomas Carter actually saved up a guinea to buy the book. It was, he said, "a large sum for one like myself to spend at one time in buying books: yet I had good reason to be satisfied; for the work was useful to me in the way of strengthening and confirming my habits of reading and observation".' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
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Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Mary Smith |
Age | Unknown |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | n/a |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | n/a |
Country of experience: | n/a |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Henry Kirke White |
Title: | The Remains of Henry Kirke White |
Genre: | Essays / Criticism, Poetry, Biography, Miscellany / Anthology |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | 2 vols (London, 1807) |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 8263 | |
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: | 146 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | David Vincent, Bread, Knowledge and Freedom: A Study of Nineteenth-Century Working Class Autobiography (London, 1981), p. 146, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=8263, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
Mary Smith was a shoemaker's daughter who subsequently worked as a servant and a schoolmistress; her autobiography was published in 1892. |
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