Record Number: 8211
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Thomas Carter on reading enabled at his Protestant Dissenting day school, where one master gave him the run of his own library: '"the books were chiefly old and odd volumes of the "Arminian" and the "Gentleman's" Magazines; these, though of but little intrinsic value, were to me a treasure, as they helped to give me a wider and more varied view of many more things than I had previously been able to command. I perused themvery much in the way of those undiscriminating readers who devour "The total grist unsifted, husks and all".'
Century:1800-1849
Date:unknown
Country:England
Timen/a
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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: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
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:The Gentleman's Magazine
Genre:Essays / Criticism, History, Poetry, Heraldry, Biography, Geography / Travel, Politics, Science, Arts / architecture, Natural history, Miscellany / Anthology, Agriculture / horticulture / husbandry
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceborrowed (other)
Source Information:
Record ID:8211
Source: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:
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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=8211, accessed: 28 September 2024
Additional Comments:
Quotation from Thomas Carter, Memoirs of a Working Man (London, 1845) p.57-8.