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Record 4960

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
Country: n/a
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Robert Smillie
Age Child (0-17)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1857
Socio-economic group: Labourer (non-agricultural)
Occupation: miner, later MP
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: n/a
Country of experience: n/a
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: anon
Title: Three Fingered Jack
Genre: Fiction, Children's Lit, Biography, Ephemera
Form of Text: Print: Book, Serial / periodical
Publication details: 'penny dreadful' cheap booklet
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 4960  
Source - Print  
  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: 368
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 368, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4960, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

See Robert Smillie, 'Life for Labour', p.15

 

 

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