Record Number: 5133
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
"Alexander Somerville, a young farm-worker growing up in the Lammermuir Hills, made his first great journeys without leaving the fields in which he laboured: "'The next book which came in my way, and made an impression so strong as to be still unworn and unwearable, was Anson's Voyage Round the World ... I had read nothing of the kind before ...'"
Century:1700-1799, 1800-1849
Date:unknown
Country:Scotland
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Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Child (0-17)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:n/a
Socio-Economic Group:Labourer (agricultural)
Occupation:n/a
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:n/a
Country of Experience:Scotland
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Voyage Round the World
Genre:Geography / Travel
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:5133
Source:David Vincent
Editor:n/a
Title:The Rise of Mass Literacy: Reading and Writing in Moderrn Europe
Place of Publication:Oxford
Date of Publication:2000
Vol:n/a
Page:99
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
David Vincent, The Rise of Mass Literacy: Reading and Writing in Moderrn Europe, (Oxford, 2000), p. 99, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=5133, accessed: 27 September 2024
Additional Comments:
Quotation from A. Somerville, Autobiography of a Working Man (1848; London, 1951) 45.