Evidence: | ['Miss Fox' writes, on Tennyson's 1848 tour of Cornwall]:
'At one place [...] where he arrived in the evening, he cried, "Where is the sea? Show me the sea." So after the sea he went stumbling in the dark, and fell down and hurt his leg so much that he had to be nursed six weeks by a surgeon there, who introduced some friends to him, and thus he got into a class of society totally new to him; and when he left they gave him a series of introductions, so that instead of going to hotels he was passed on from town to town, and abode with little grocers and shopkeepers along his line of travel. He says that he cannot have better got a true impression of the class, and thinks the Cornish very superior to the generality. They all knew about Tennyson, and had read his poems, and one miner hid behind a wall that he might see him.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1840 and 30 May 1848 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | county: Cornwall | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reading Group: | Cornish 'grocers and shopkeepers' and working people |
Age | Unknown |
Gender | Unknown |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | n/a |
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 Tennyson |
Title: | n/a |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 21429 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Hallam Tennyson | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir by His Son | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1897 | |
Vol: | 1 | |
Page: | 274 n.1 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Hallam Tennyson, Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir by His Son (London, 1897), 1, p. 274 n.1, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=21429, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
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