Evidence: | "Alexander Somerville, a young farm-worker growing up in the Lammermuir Hills, made his first great journeys without leaving the fields in which he laboured:
"'The next book which came in my way, and made an impression so strong as to be still unworn and unwearable, was Anson's Voyage Round the World ... I had read nothing of the kind before ...'" |
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Century: | 1700-1799, 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Alexander Somerville |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (agricultural) |
Occupation: | n/a |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | n/a |
Country of experience: | Scotland |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Anson |
Title: | Voyage Round the World |
Genre: | Geography / Travel |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 5133 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | David Vincent | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | The Rise of Mass Literacy: Reading and Writing in Moderrn Europe | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 2000 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 99 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | David Vincent, The Rise of Mass Literacy: Reading and Writing in Moderrn Europe (Oxford, 2000), p. 99, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5133, accessed: 20 April 2024 |
Quotation from A. Somerville, Autobiography of a Working Man (1848; London, 1951) 45. |
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