| Evidence: | 'When I left my home for the first time, I suddenly passed out of the excitements of my Windsor life into the school-boy's ordinary abstraction from the outer world. I heard nothing of the stir of the great Babel, though I was within seven miles of Hyde Park Corner. The newspaper I now very rarely saw, instead of regularly reading our "Globe" aloud; for of that evening journal my father was then a shareholder.' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1802 and 31 Dec 1802 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | evening | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Windsor other location: Home |
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| Reader: | Charles Knight |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 15 Mar 1791 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Later a journalist |
| Religion: | Christian |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Family, presumably |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | |
| Title: | The Globe |
| Genre: | newspaper |
| Form of Text: | Print: Newspaper |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 8716 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Charles Knight | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Passages of a working life during half a century with a prelude of Early Reminiscences | |
| Place of Publication: | Shannon: Irish University Press | |
| Date of Publication: | 1971 | |
| Vol: | 1 | |
| Page: | 56 | |
| Additional comments: | Originally published by London's Bradbury & Evans, 1864-65. |
| Citation: | Charles Knight, Passages of a working life during half a century with a prelude of Early Reminiscences (Shannon: Irish University Press, 1971), 1, p. 56, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=8716, accessed: 24 April 2024 | |
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