| Evidence: | 'I came up from Lincolnshire to town on Monday and went down that night to Magdalen to read my Catullus, but while lying in bed on Tuesday morning with Swinburne (a copy of) was woke up by the Clerk of the Schools to know why I did not come up.' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 4 Jul 1876 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | morning | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Oxford county: Oxfordshire specific address: Magdalen College location in dwelling: Private Room other location: In bed |
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| Type of Experience (Reader): |
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| Reader: | Oscar Wilde |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 16 Oct 1854 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Student |
| Religion: | unknown |
| Country of origin: | Ireland |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Algernon Charles Swinburne |
| Title: | unknown |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 17938 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Oscar Wilde | |
| Editor: | Merlin Holland | |
| Title: | The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde | |
| Place of Publication: | New York | |
| Date of Publication: | 2000 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 20 | |
| Additional comments: | Source is a letter from Wilde to William Ward, collected in Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart Davies, ed. The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde (New York: Henry Holt and Son, 2000) |
| Citation: | Oscar Wilde, Merlin Holland (ed.), The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde (New York, 2000), p. 20, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17938, accessed: 24 April 2024 | |
| The exact date of the experience is not given in the source - I have reasoned that since the letter is postmarked 10th July 1876 (Monday) and that the experience is said to have taken place 'on Tuesday', the experience must have occurred on the previous Tuesday (4th July). |
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