Evidence: | '[Through the Women's Co-operative Guild, Deborah Smith] began reading poetry and, at age fifty one, discovered her own spiritual longings in Tennyson:
Break, break, break on thy cold grey stones, oh sea,
Oh would that my tongue could utter
The thoughts that arise in me!' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1909 and 31 Dec 1910 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Nelson | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Deborah Smith |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1858 |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
Occupation: | weaver |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Alfred Lord Tennyson |
Title: | 'Break, break, break' |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 1813 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Jonathan Rose | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes | |
Place of Publication: | New Haven | |
Date of Publication: | 2001 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 78 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 78, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1813, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
See Deborah Smith, 'My Revelation' (London, 1933) |
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