Sue Anderson
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807 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 8 Aug
Sue Anderson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I entered myself on the books of the institution as an apprentice and continued until within a few months of its dissolution.
When I left the asylum I proposed working on my own account.
And having acquired a partial knowledge of the upholstery business, I was soon employed.
My friends exerted themselves on this occasion to promote my interest.
And though there were several individuals who had learned the business in the same asylum, and who could work better than I, yet
Yet I generally got the preference.
Many of my friends went so far as even to contrive work for me, for which they had not immediate use, merely to keep me employed.
Although my pecuniary circumstances were not much improved, yet I now experienced a greater share of mental happiness than I had ever enjoyed before because
I was in a situation that offered me better opportunities of acquiring knowledge than I had ever possessed previous to this time.
In eighteen thirty three a number of young men formed a reading society in Belfast.
And although they were all mechanics, yet were they also men of taste, and some of them were possessed of considerable talents.
Into this society I was admitted a member of
At the same time I was kindly exempted from the expense attending its regulations and
One of the members was a man of the most extraordinary character I had ever known, and therefore I attached myself to him.
To good nature, he united an original genius, a good taste, and extreme sensibility.
And had an early education been his lot?
Or had his mind been sufficiently expanded by study to
He would have become an ornament to society.
This man proposed to read to me if I would procure books, and
Our stated hour for this employment was from nine o'clock in the evening until one in the morning in the winter season.
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