Evidence: | James Burn, on his first contact with literature after years of having seen none: '"In the latter end of the year of 1826, a friend made me a present of an old edition of Chevalier Ramsay's "Life of Cyrus". This little volume opened up to my enquiring mind a rich field of useful knowledge. The apendix to the work contained the [italics]heathen mythology[end italics]: this part of the work completely fascinated me, and for a considerable time became my constant companion."' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jun 1826 and 31 Dec 1826 | ||||||||||
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Reader: | James Dawson Burn |
Age | Unknown |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | Apprentice hatter |
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: | Chevalier Ramsay |
Title: | Life of Cyrus |
Genre: | Classics, History, Biography |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 8261 | |
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Author: | David Vincent | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Bread, Knowledge and Freedom: A Study of Nineteenth-Century Working Class Autobiography | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1981 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 140 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | David Vincent, Bread, Knowledge and Freedom: A Study of Nineteenth-Century Working Class Autobiography (London, 1981), p. 140, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=8261, accessed: 25 April 2024 |
Quotation from James Dawson Burn, The Autobiography of a Beggar Boy, ed. David Vincent (London, 1978) p.130. |
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