Evidence: | '[Hugh Miller's] literary style was out of date: in 1834 he alluded to "my having kept company with the older English writers - the Addisons, Popes and Robertsons of the last century at a time when I had no opportunity of becoming acquainted with the authors of the present time". Growing up in Cromarty, Miller had access to the substantial personal libraries of a carpenter and a retired clerk, as well as his father (sixty volumes), his uncles (150 volumes) and a cabinet-maker poet (upwards of 100 volumes). These collections offered a broad selection of English essayists and poets - of the Queen Anne period.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: 1832 | ||||||||||
Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Cromarty | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Hugh Miller |
Age | Unknown |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1802 |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | stonemason turned geological author |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | Scotland |
Country of experience: | Scotland |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Alexander Pope |
Title: | n/a |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | borrowed (private library) |
Record ID: | 2431 | |
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: | 119 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 119, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=2431, accessed: 25 April 2024 |
See Harry Hanham and Michael Shortland, introduction to Hugh Miller's Memoir:From Stonemason to Geologist (Edinburgh, 1995), p.16 |
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