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Elizabeth Welbourn's Celebrated Reciter for all Occasions. The Hearth and Home Reciter.

Elizabeth Welbourn was Carr's mother. This small book was: Published by the Society for the promotion of Learning by Heart of Noble and Inspiring Verse for the English Tongue and its declamation in Public Places or for Private Satisfaction. Do you need to know more?

(Last updated on 17/4/2021)

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Rear and front covers

Inside rear cover

Content: Instructions for declaimers; Remembrances by Thomas Hood; Casabianca by Mrs Hemans; Excelsior by Henry W. Longfellow; The Village Blacksmith by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; The Burial of Sir John Moore by Wolfe; The Minstrel Boy by Thomas Moore; The Sluggard by Dr Isaac Watts; The Wreck of the Hesperus by H.W. Longfellow; Love of Country by Sir Walter Scott; The Charge of the Light Brigade by Lord Tennyson; The Quadroon Girl by Longfellow; The Pauper's Drive by Thomas Noel; The Better Land by Mrs Hemans; We are Seven by William Wordsworth; Lord Ullin's Daughter by T. Campbell; The Collier's Dying Child by Farmer.

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Rear and front covers

Inside rear cover

Content: Instructions for declaimers; Remembrances by Thomas Hood; The Village Blacksmith by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; The Wreck of the Hesperus by H.W. Longfellow; Love of Country by Sir Walter Scott; Lord Ullin's Daughter by T. Campbell; The Quadroon Girl by Longfellow; Casabianca by Mrs Hemans; Excelsior by Henry W. Longfellow; Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel by Leigh Hunt; The Burial of Sir John Moore by Wolfe; The Minstrel Boy by Thomas Moore; The Charge of the Light Brigade by Lord Tennyson; Barbara Frietchie by John Greenleaf Whittier

Notes: This is one of two small books numbered 55. The other title is the William Morris 2.

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