Record Number: 8208

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Thomas Carter on childhood reading: '"I gained the good-will of an aged woman who sold cakes, sweetmeats and fruit, and was moreover a dealer in little books [...] I had even then a taste for reading, which was here gratified by my being permitted to read all the little stories which she kept on sale."'

Century:

1700-1799, 1800-1849

Date:

unknown

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

other location: shop

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:

Thomas Carter

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1792

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

n/a

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:

Title:

storybooks

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

read in situ

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Source Information:

Record ID:

8208

Source:

Print

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:

117

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

David Vincent, Bread, Knowledge and Freedom: A Study of Nineteenth-Century Working-Class Autobiography, (London, 1981), p. 117, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=8208, accessed: 28 September 2024

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Additional Comments:

Quotation from Thomas Carter, Memoirs of a Working Man (London, 1845) p.20