Record Number: 7005
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
?The first book which attracted my particular notice was "The Pilgrim?s Progress", with rude woodcuts; it excited my curiosity in an extraordinary degree. There was "Christian knocking at the strait gate", his "fight wit Appolyn", his "passing near the lions", his "escape from Giant Dispair [sic]", his perils at "Vanity Fair", his arrival in "the land of Beula", and his final passage to "Eternal Rest": all these were matters for the exercise of my feeling and my imagination. And then when it was explained to me ? as it was by my mother and sister...?
Century:1700-1799
Date:Between 1 Jan 1790 and 31 Dec 1799
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Middleton
county: Lancashire
(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:28 Feb 1788
Socio-Economic Group:Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Occupation:son of muslin weaver
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Pilgrim's Progress
Genre:Other religious, Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsprobably chapbook edition
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:7005
Source:Samuel Bamford
Editor:n/a
Title:Early Days
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1849
Vol:n/a
Page:40-1
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Samuel Bamford, Early Days, (London, 1849), p. 40-1, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=7005, accessed: 03 October 2024
Additional Comments:
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