Evidence: | 'Since they filled those gaps [in historical and geographical knowledge], classic travel books could produce the same kind of epiphanies as other classic literature. Anson's A Voyage Round the World performed that magic for Alexander Somerville and for the Scottish turnip hoers he read it to'. |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Alexander Somerville |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1811 |
Socio-economic group: | Unknown/NA |
Occupation: | n/a |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | n/a |
Country of experience: | Scotland |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
turnip hoers |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | George Anson |
Title: | A Voyage Round the World |
Genre: | Geography / Travel |
Form of Text: | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 4584 | |
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: | 349 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 349, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4584, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
See Alexander Somerville, 'Autobiography' pp92-3. No further ref traceable in Rose notes |
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