Group: humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare
From: "Paul Crowley"
Date: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: Oh yeah, any day now the tide will turn..Bryson on anti-Strats

"William Black" wrote in message
news:fr8pup$34p$1@registered.motzarella.org...

>> How many great authors can you list
>> who were brought up in a household
>> of illiterates?
>
> Well DH Lawrence for a start.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._H._Lawrence

"The fourth child of Arthur John Lawrence, a barely literate miner,
and Lydia, née Beardsall, a former schoolmistress . . "

Maybe Victorian schoolmistresses
could be illiterate?

> I can't be bothered to look any more up.

What a shame . . . after doing so
well up to now.

> Shakespeare was educated at an English Grammar School.

Pure nonsense -- in multiple
dimensions.


Paul.