Record Number: 4961

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Though miners' MP Robert Smillie surreptitiously gorged on Dick Turpin and Three Fingered Jack as a boy, they... "led to better things": by fourteen he had seen RIchard III, read some of the Sonnets, discovered Burns, Scott and Dickens.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1857 and 31 Dec 1872

Country:

n/a

Time

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Place:

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Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Robert Smillie

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1857

Socio-Economic Group:

Labourer (non-agricultural)

Occupation:

miner, later MP

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

n/a

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

William Shakespeare

Title:

Sonnets

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

4961

Source:

Print

Author:

Jonathan Rose

Editor:

n/a

Title:

The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes

Place of Publication:

New Haven

Date of Publication:

2001

Vol:

n/a

Page:

368

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, (New Haven, 2001), p. 368, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=4961, accessed: 21 December 2024

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Additional Comments:

See Robert Smillie, 'Life for Labour', p.15