Reading [ Reading & Writing ]
… to his Friends', © National Portrait gallery, NPG D5810, 1804. Image Thomas Cook, Daniel Dodd, ‘A Father Reading to His Family by Candlelight’, British Museum, 1875,0109.193, 1783. Abstract In the eighteenth-century, reading was often … of society as a whole relied more and more on rising levels of literacy. Practices > Reading & Writing Keywords Clubs Family Fiction Streets While reading might be seen as a solitary act of perception, contributing to the construction of … collective than an individual enterprise. The most obvious instance of sociable reading would be that of a member of the family reading to the whole family around the fire or any other source of light (candles) as a choice moment of …
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