Record Number: 5413
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
"And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's Penny Times' to Cobbett's Works, 'French without a Master,' together with English, Roman, and Grecian history."
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 1833 and 1835
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: London
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:Child (0-17)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:29 May 1828
Socio-Economic Group:Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Occupation:Chartist poet and prose writer; at the time errand boy
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Lloyd's Penny Times
Genre:Ephemera
Form of Text:Print: Newspaper
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:5413
Source:Gerald Massey
Editor:Samuel Smiles
Title:Poetical Works
Place of Publication:n/a
Date of Publication:1861
Vol:n/a
Page:xii
Additional Comments:
The quotation comes from Samuel Smiles' introduction to Massey's "Poetical Works", entitled "A Biographical Sketch of Gerald Massey, 1851 (when he was only 23)".
Citation:
Gerald Massey, Samuel Smiles (ed.), Poetical Works, (1861), p. xii, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=5413, accessed: 12 October 2024
Additional Comments:
None