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“If, in my song or in my saying, there appears more of egotism than enough, how can I avoid it and speak at all?”

On the necessity of personal narrative when telling one’s own story of hardship and song · Preface, Rhymes and Recollections of a Hand-Loom Weaver

About William Thom

William Thom

c. December 1798–29 February 1848

William Thom was born in Aberdeen, probably in December 1798, though sources have variously placed his birth in 1798, 1799, or 1800. The uncertainty is not trivial: it reflects the precarious position from which he emerged, a position in which the lives of poor urban families were not always recorded with the…

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