Evidence: | ?Whilst in Mr W?s employ, I combined my poetic readings at all leisure moments. I procured and read speedily a complete "Iliad" in English. Some of Shakespeare?s works having fallen in my way, I read them with avidity, as I did almost every other book, and though deeply interested by his historical characters and passages, I never either then or since relished his blank verse, or that of any other poet.? |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Manchester county: Lancashire |
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Reader: | Samuel Bamford |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 28 Feb 1788 |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | warehouseman (hand loom weaver) |
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: | William Shakespeare |
Title: | [works] |
Genre: | Drama |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | borrowed (other) from work? |
Record ID: | 7325 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Samuel Bamford | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Early Days | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1849 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 209 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Samuel Bamford, Early Days (London, 1849), p. 209, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=7325, accessed: 19 April 2024 |
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