Evidence: | From Hallam Tennyson's account of his father's last days:
'On Sept. 3rd [1892] he complained of weakness and of pain in his jaw [...]
'On Wednesday the 29th we telegraphed for Sir Andrew Clark [?physician] [...]
'He read Job, and St Matthew, and Miss Swanwick's new book on Poets as the Interpreters of the Age. Sir Andrew arrived, and did not think so badly of him as I did. He and my father fell to discussing Gray's "Elegy" [...]
'On Friday my wife read him an article in the Times on the colonization of Uganda, for which he asked [...]
'On Monday morning at eight o'clock he sent me for his Shakespeare. I took him Steevens's edition, Lear, Cymbeline, and Troilus and Cressida, three plays which he loved dearly.
'He read two or three lines, and told Dr Dabbs that he should never get well again. We asked him later whether he felt better: he answered, "The doctor says I am." At his request I read some Shakespeare to him'. |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | 4 Oct 1892 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Hallam Tennyson |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1852 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
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: | William Shakespeare |
Title: | n/a |
Genre: | Drama, Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 23101 | |
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: | 2 | |
Page: | 425 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Hallam Tennyson, Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir by His Son (London, 1897), 2, p. 425, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=23101, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
Alfred Tennyson died on 6 October 1892. |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)