| Evidence: | ?If I did not at that time educate myself, I at least did the next best thing. I tried to. English was picked up from Cobbett; the lessons in Cassell?s "Popular Educator" offered some insight into Latin; French was studied from the same pages in conjunction with another youth; and arrangements were made with an enthusiastic disciple of Isaac Pitman to plunge the depths of phonography when a change of circumstances cast these and all other educational projects to the winds.? |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Cheltenham | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | William Edwin Adams |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | Feb 1832 |
| Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
| Occupation: | Errand boy, later journalist |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | John Cobbett |
| Title: | Cobbett's Grammar |
| Genre: | Education, Textbook / self-education, Reference / General works |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 7361 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | William Edwin Adams | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Memoirs of a Social Atom | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1903 | |
| Vol: | 1 | |
| Page: | 112-3 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | William Edwin Adams, Memoirs of a Social Atom (London, 1903), 1, p. 112-3, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=7361, accessed: 24 May 2013 | |
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