| Evidence: | '"I next succeeded in discovering for myself a child's book, of not less interest than even The Iliad." It was Pilgrim's Progress, with wonderful woodcut illustrations. And from there it was a sort step to Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's Travels'. |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Hugh Miller |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1802 |
| Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
| Occupation: | later a stonemason |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Daniel Defoe |
| Title: | Robinson Crusoe |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 1841 | |
| 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: | 95 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 95, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1841, accessed: 04 December 2023 | |
| See Hugh Miller, 'Schools and Schoolmasters', pp.28-30. |
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