Evidence: | David Vincent notes the former agricultural labourer (and later trades union leader and M.P.) Joseph Arch's recollection in his memoir that, after work, '"I would stick like a limpet to my books of an evening"'. |
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Century: | 1800-1849, 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
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Time: | evening | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Joseph Arch |
Age | Unknown |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (agricultural) |
Occupation: | Agricultural labourer |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | n/a |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | |
Title: | n/a |
Genre: | Unknown |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 8271 | |
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: | 182 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | David Vincent, Bread, Knowledge and Freedom: A Study of Nineteenth-Century Working Class Autobiography (London, 1981), p. 182, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=8271, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
Quotation from Joseph Arch, Joseph Arch, The Story of his Life. Told by Himself, ed. with preface by the Countess of Warwick (London, 1898) p.33. |
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