Record Number: 2430
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'[Hugh Miller's] literary style was out of date: in 1834 he alluded to "my having kept company with the older English writers - the Addisons, Popes and Robertsons of the last century at a time when I had no opportunity of becoming acquainted with the authors of the present time". Growing up in Cromarty, Miller had access to the substantial personal libraries of a carpenter and a retired clerk, as well as his father (sixty volumes), his uncles (150 volumes) and a cabinet-maker poet (upwards of 100 volumes). These collections offered a broad selection of English essayists and poets - of the Queen Anne period.'
Century:1800-1849
Date:Until: 1832
Country:Scotland
Timen/a
Place:city: Cromarty
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Unknown
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:1802
Socio-Economic Group:Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Occupation:stonemason turned geological author
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:Scotland
Country of Experience:Scotland
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:n/a
Genre:Essays / Criticism
Form of Text:Print: Book, Serial / periodical
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceborrowed (private library)
Source Information:
Record ID:2430
Source: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:119
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, (New Haven, 2001), p. 119, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=2430, accessed: 18 April 2024
Additional Comments:
See Harry Hanham and Michael Shortland, introduction to Hugh Miller's Memoir:From Stonemason to Geologist (Edinburgh, 1995), p.16
