Record Number: 589

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Upon on of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which display their leafy banners along the quays of the seine, I picked up a Cobbett's French Grammar for a Franc and a pocket dictionary for another. A fellow lodger lent me a Testament and a Telemaque, and to these materials I applied doggedly from six in the morningtill dinner time. I read the grammer through first, and then made an abridgement of it on a small pack of plain cards ...

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 May 1826 and 31 May 1826

Country:

France

Time

morning: Between 6.00 am and 'dinner time'.
daytime: Between 6.00 am and 'dinner time'.

Place:

city: Paris
location in dwelling: lodging house

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:

Charles Manby Smith

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1804

Socio-Economic Group:

Labourer (non-agricultural)

Occupation:

Unemployed Printer

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

France

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

William Cobbett

Title:

A French Grammar, Or plain Instructions for the Le

Genre:

Textbook / self-education

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

589

Source:

Print

Author:

Charles Manby Smith

Editor:

n/a

Title:

The Working Man's Way in the World

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1853

Vol:

n/a

Page:

47

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Charles Manby Smith, The Working Man's Way in the World, (London, 1853), p. 47, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=589, accessed: 25 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

None