| Evidence: | '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pitscottie's Chronicles of Scotland, as well as the Spectator and Rambler. She could borrow books by Burns, Robert Fergusson and other poets from neighbours, and at age eight she found "to my great joy, on the loom of an intellectual weaver", Paradise Lost and Allan Ramsay's poems'. |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: village of Langloan | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Janet Hamilton |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Unknown/NA |
| Occupation: | n/a |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | Scotland |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Joseph Addison |
| Title: | The Spectator |
| Genre: | Essays / Criticism |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, might have been the serial versions or, more likely, bound as a book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | Subscription Library |
| Record ID: | 2405 | |
| 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: | 117 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 117, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=2405, accessed: 04 June 2023 | |
| See Janet Hamilton, 'Poems, Essays and Sketches' |
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