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Making Their Mark

Learning to read and write in 19th-century Cumberland

Jane Platt

£15.00

Making their Mark explores the acquisition and use of literacy by working folk living in North and East Cumberland in the 19th century.

Dr Jane Platt explores how many of the poor could read, how they learned to read, what they read, how their books were acquired, and the uses to which literacy was put.

publisher:

Bookcase

pages:

200p

Publication Date:

2019 March

format:

Paperback; 148 x 210mm

ISBN:

9781912181193

illustrations:

Some black and white illustrations

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