Record Number: 4964
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
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Type of Experience(Reader):
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(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Child (0-17)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:1857
Socio-Economic Group:Labourer (non-agricultural)
Occupation:miner, later MP
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Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:[unknown]
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
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Source Information:
Record ID:4964
Source:Jonathan Rose
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Title:The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
Place of Publication:New Haven
Date of Publication:2001
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Page:368
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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=4964, accessed: 17 August 2024
Additional Comments:
See Robert Smillie, 'Life for Labour', p.15