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Record 8263

Reading Experience:

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".'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: unknown
Country: n/a
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

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

 

Text Being Read:

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

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 8263  
Source - Print  
  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

Additional comments:

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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