| Evidence: | Transcribed in letter from William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, [c.25 February 1818]:
'If money I lack
The shirt on my back
Shall off - and go to the hammer;
For though with bare skin
By G- I'll be in,
And raise up a radical clamour!
Placard for a Poll bearing an old Shirt.' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Feb 1818 and 28 Feb 1818 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | William Wordsworth |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 7 Apr 1770 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Religion: | Church of England |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | |
| Title: | n/a |
| Genre: | Politics |
| Form of Text: | Print: Handbill |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 1642 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | William and Dorothy Wordsworth | |
| Editor: | Ernest De Selincourt | |
| Title: | The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: The MIddle Years (1812-1820) | |
| Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
| Date of Publication: | 1970 | |
| Vol: | 2 | |
| Page: | 435 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Ernest De Selincourt (ed.), The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: The MIddle Years (1812-1820) (Oxford, 1970), 2, p. 435, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1642, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
| p.435 n.4 in source suggests: "This election squib was presumably copied from a handbill." |
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