![]() ![]() But the time time he was 21, he had saved up enough for a term at the University of Heildelberg, to which he walked 250 miles from the port of Antwerp in order to save his money. He then attended night school, for six pence a week practiced shorthand by taking down sermons in the Methodist chapel his family atteneded was part of a Sunday school where he organized a lending library and at the age of 18 started his own night school. ![]() Wright was taught by another worker who used the Bible and Pilgrim’s Progress as texts. He did not learn to read until he was 15, inspired to do so by a workmate who read news bulletins about the Franco-Prussian War. Joseph Wright, a native of the West Riding of Yorkshire, started working in a factory at the age of 6. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | Pandora | iHeartRadio | Blubrry | JioSaavn | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSS Podcast: Download (Duration: 58:35 - 80.5MB) ![]()
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