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.' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1857 and 31 Dec 1872 | ||||||||||
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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) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Robert Burns |
Title: | [poems] |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 4962 | |
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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=4962, accessed: 25 April 2024 |
See Robert Smillie, 'Life for Labour', p.15 |
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