Evidence: | 'As a child, William Heaton the Yorkshire weaver-poet, "rambled with Christian from his home in the wilderness to the Celestial City; mused over his hair-breadth escapes, and his conflict with Giant Despair", enjoying it exactly as he enjoyed Roderick Random and Robinson Crusoe.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | county: Yorkshire | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | William Heaton |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1805 |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
Occupation: | later weaver and poet |
Religion: | n/a |
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: | Tobias Smollett |
Title: | Roderick Random |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 1993 | |
Source - | ||
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: | 104 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 104, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1993, accessed: 19 April 2024 |
See William Heaton, 'The Old Soldier (london, 1857) pp. xvi-xvii |
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