“The Tennis Ball of Fortune”: print, manuscript, and provincial literacies in the Chronicles of John Cannon
This paper will focus on the Chronicles of John Cannon, a ploughboy turned exciseman and writing master living in the Somerset levels who described himself as a “Tennis Ball of Fortune.” Cannon's story of self‐education and writerly self‐fashioning took striking material form in an illustrated...
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Duke University Press
2024
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