Robert Bloomfield
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Robert Bloomfield was an English labouring-class poet, whose work is appreciated in the context of other self-educated writers, such as Stephen Duck, Mary Collier and John Clare.
Robert Bloomfield
Robert Bloomfield House in Shefford, Bedfordshire, where the poet died in 1823
Bloomfield's grave in the churchyard of All Saints church in Campton in Bedfordshire
Honington, Suffolk
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Honington is a village and civil parish located in Bardwell Ward and Pakenham and Troston Wards of West Suffolk District Council, Suffolk in eastern England It is near to the border with Norfolk. It l
Robert Bloomfield
…of other self-educated writers, such as Stephen Duck, Mary Collier and John Clare. Robert Bloomfield was born into a poor family in the village of Honington, Suffolk. His father was a tailor, who died of smallpox when his son was a year old. It was from his mother Elizabeth, who kept the village school…
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Village sign in Honington
Honington Church and the Bloomfield cottage