John Clare

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Milestones

13 July 1793

JC , labouring-class poet, was born at Helpston near Stamford in Northamptonshire.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.

20 May 1864

JC , labouring-class poet, died in NorthamptonGeneral Asylum .
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.

Biography

13 July 1793

JC , labouring-class poet, was born at Helpston near Stamford in Northamptonshire.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
In 1820 he married Martha Turner . They had nine children.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.

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