Record Number: 8238

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Thomas Wood, an apprentice mechanic, described the problems he faced [reading] in [...] dark evenings: "I had to read by firelight excepting when I could afford a 1/2d candle, which I used to save to read with in bed. I have read perhaps scores of times till 12.00 or 1 o'clock."'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

unknown

Country:

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Time

n/anight

Place:

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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 Wood

Age:

Unknown

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1822

Socio-Economic Group:

Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder

Occupation:

Apprentice mechanic

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

n/a

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

n/a

Genre:

Unknown

Form of Text:

Print: Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

8238

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:

123

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

David Vincent, Bread, Knowledge and Freedom: A Study of Nineteenth-Century Working-Class Autobiography, (London, 1981), p. 123, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=8238, accessed: 27 September 2024

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Additional Comments:

Quotation from Thomas Wood, The Autobiography of Thomas Wood, 1822-1880 (1956) [MS. written 1878], p.9.