| Evidence: | 'Though miners' MP Robert Smillie surreptitiously gorged on Dick Turpin and Three Fingered Jack as a boy, they... "led to better things": by fourteen he had seen RIchard III, read some of the Sonnets, discovered Burns, Scott and Dickens.' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1857 and 31 Dec 1872 | ||||||||||
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| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Robert Smillie |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1857 |
| Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
| Occupation: | miner, later MP |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | n/a |
| Country of experience: | n/a |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Walter Scott |
| Title: | [unknown] |
| Genre: | Fiction, Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 4963 | |
| 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: | 368 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 368, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4963, accessed: 23 May 2013 | |
| See Robert Smillie, 'Life for Labour', p.15 |
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