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, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.

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, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.

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, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
In 1820 he married Martha Turner . They had nine children.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

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