Record Number: 1013
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'indiscriminate reading brought... liberation to Chartist Robert Lowery. A prolonged illness gave him the opportunity to work through a bookseller's entire circulating library and much else besides... Where a prescribed reading list might have reflected the biases of the compiler, improvisational reading offered him a broad "general knowledge of history,... poetry and imaginative literature." The very fact that "I read without any order or method" forced his mind to exercise "A ready power of arranging the information this desultory reading presented". It inspired him to write poetry and fiction.'
Century:1800-1849
Date:unknown
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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:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:1809
Socio-Economic Group:Unknown/NA
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Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:[poetry]
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Book
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ProvenanceBorrowed (circulating library)
Source Information:
Record ID:1013
Source:Jonathan Rose
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Title:The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
Place of Publication:New Haven
Date of Publication:2001
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Page:37
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, (New Haven, 2001), p. 37, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=1013, accessed: 10 September 2024
Additional Comments:
Read widely during a period of illness. See 'Robert Lowery: Passages in the Life of a Temperance Lecturer' in Brian Harrison and Patricia Hollis (eds.), Robert Lowery: Radical and Chartist (London, 1979)
