Imprint Record

The Virginian Orator.

• Imprint Number: 1808.029
• Title: The Virginian orator: being a variety of original and selected poems, orations and dramatic scenes, to improve the American youth in the ornamental and useful art of eloquence & gesture by Thomas E. Birch.
• Sequence Number: 29
• Year: 1808
• Place Issued: Richmond
• Issuing Press: Samuel Pleasants
• Author: Birch, Thomas Erskine (1763-1821).
• Notes: Birch was an English émigré, who fled Britain during the Revolutionary War, made his way to Virginia, and became a noted educator and Methodist minister in Wythe County; as text here notes, this publication was designed to advance school-children's oratorical skills.
  Birch offered to publish a second part of his Virginia Orator (The Republican Speaker) in the Introduction here [p. iv], but four years later he was still promoting this work, indicating that additional work had failed to find sufficient support for publication.
  
  
• Related Biographies:
  • Thomas Erskine Birch
  • Samuel Pleasants, Jr.

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