| Evidence: | ' ... in November 1876, when a guest of Gladstone at Hawarden, Tennyson read the whole of his new play, "Harold" (1877) ... The marathon session began at 11.30 and continued for two and a half hours, during which Gladstone nodded off and other minds turned to "such earthly things as luncheon".' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Nov 1876 and 30 Nov 1876 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Wales | ||||||||||
| Time: | morning afternoon daytime |
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| Place: | specific address: Hawarden | ||||||||||
| Type of Experience (Reader): |
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| Reader: | Alfred Tennyson |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1809 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | Wales |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
W. E. Gladstone |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Alfred Tennyson |
| Title: | Harold |
| Genre: | Drama, Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Unknown |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 3445 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Philip Waller | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 | |
| Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
| Date of Publication: | 2006 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 368 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Philip Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 (Oxford, 2006), p. 368, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3445, accessed: 26 April 2024 | |
| Quotation from Lucy Masterman, ed., Mary Gladstone: Her Diaries and Letters (1930), 1 Nov. 1876. |
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