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Robert Smillie

 

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anon : Dick Turpin

'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     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Smillie      Print: Book, Serial / periodical

  

anon : Three Fingered Jack

'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     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Smillie      Print: Book, Serial / periodical

  

William Shakespeare : Sonnets

'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     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Smillie      Print: Book

  

Robert Burns : [poems]

'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     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Smillie      Print: Book

  

Walter Scott : [unknown]

'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     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Smillie      Print: Book

  

Charles Dickens : [unknown]

'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     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Smillie      Print: Book

 

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