Record Number: 7367
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
?[James Watson?s] mother, who was left a widow soon after he was born, obtained a situation at the parsonage, where she read Cobbett?s "Register" and "saw nothing bad in it". James himself was apprenticed to the clergyman to "learn field labour" but his indentures, owing to the reverend gentleman leaving Yorkshire for another part of the country, were cancelled before he had finished his time. Thereupon the youth set out for Leeds in search for friends and employment. While working in a warehouse, he too began to read Cobbett?s "Register" and "saw nothing bad in it". Besides Cobbett?s writings, he early made the acquaintance of the Radical literature of the day ? Wooler?s "Black Dwarf" and Carlile?s "Republican".?
Century:1800-1849
Date:unknown
Country:England
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Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:Feb 1799
Socio-Economic Group:Labourer (non-agricultural)
Occupation:warehouse man
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Republican
Genre:Essays / Criticism, Politics
Form of Text:Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
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Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:7367
Source:William Edwin Adams
Editor:n/a
Title:Memoirs of a Social Atom
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1903
Vol:1
Page:186
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
William Edwin Adams, Memoirs of a Social Atom, (London, 1903), 1, p. 186, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=7367, accessed: 22 November 2024
Additional Comments:
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