Record Number: 5414

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

"And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's Penny Times' to Cobbett's Works, 'French without a Master,' together with English, Roman, and Grecian history."

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1833 and 1835

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: London

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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Gerald Massey

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

29 May 1828

Socio-Economic Group:

Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder

Occupation:

Chartist poet and prose writer; at the time errand boy

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

William Cobbett

Title:

Works

Genre:

Fiction, Social Science, Autobiog / Diary, Geography / Travel

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

5414

Source:

Print

Author:

Gerald Massey

Editor:

Samuel Smiles

Title:

Poetical Works

Place of Publication:

n/a

Date of Publication:

1861

Vol:

n/a

Page:

xii

Additional Comments:

The quotation comes from Samuel Smiles' introduction to Massey's "Poetical Works", entitled "A Biographical Sketch of Gerald Massey, 1851 (when he was only 23)".

Citation:

Gerald Massey, Samuel Smiles (ed.), Poetical Works, (1861), p. xii, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=5414, accessed: 22 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

None