Record Number: 10789

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I well remember, and I sometimes think of it with tears, bringing to my lodgings Rollin's "Ancient History", in six volumes. I wanted something to read. I had no one to advise me to a course of reading, so I pitched on Rollin. Next I obtained a number of Wiley and Putnam's "Library of Choice Reading", and there I found essay, and biography, and history; but for the lack of a system, my reading was desultory. My time was soon fully occupied in speaking, day and night, in school-houses, vestries, and halls, so that the opportunities for intellectual culture were limited. Still, I read a great deal to small profit, owing to the lack of advantages, such as I might have obtained, by the training which an education would have imparted.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1840 and 31 Dec 1849

Country:

United States of America

Time

n/a

Place:

location in dwelling: private lodgings

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:

John B. Gough

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1817

Socio-Economic Group:

Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder

Occupation:

temperance lecturer

Religion:

Protestant - possibly dissenting

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

United States of America

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Charles Rollin

Title:

Ancient History

Genre:

History

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

10789

Source:

Print

Author:

John B. Gough

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Sunlight and Shadow: or, gleanings from my life-work, comprising personal experiences andopinions, anecdotes, incidents, and reminiscences, gathered from thirty-seven years' experience on the platform and among the people at home and abroad

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1882 (4th edn)

Vol:

n/a

Page:

248

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

John B. Gough, Sunlight and Shadow: or, gleanings from my life-work, comprising personal experiences andopinions, anecdotes, incidents, and reminiscences, gathered from thirty-seven years' experience on the platform and among the people at home and abroad, (London, 1882 (4th edn)), p. 248, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=10789, accessed: 14 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

None