| Evidence: | David Vincent relates how the nineteenth-century apprentice compositor William Adams rejected his usual work associates and walking-companions after discovering Young's "Night Thoughts". |
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| Century: | 1800-1849, 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
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| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | William Adams |
| Age | Unknown |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
| Occupation: | Apprentice compositor |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | n/a |
| Country of experience: | n/a |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Edward Young |
| Title: | The Complaint, and the Consolation, or, Night Thoughts |
| Genre: | Other religious, Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 8270 | |
| Source - | ||
| 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: | 182 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | David Vincent, Bread, Knowledge and Freedom: A Study of Nineteenth-Century Working Class Autobiography (London, 1981), p. 182, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=8270, accessed: 24 May 2013 | |
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