Evidence: | 'Occasionally the discussions became acrimonious. My eldest brother was one day making disparaging remarks about Tennyson, and my mother, all agitated in defence of her idol, fetched his poems from the shelf, and with a "Listen now, children" began to declaim "Locksley Hall". When she reached "I to herd with narroe foreheads" she burst out, flinging down the book, "What awful rubbish this is!" |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1870 and 31 Dec 1879 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London location in dwelling: home |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Mrs Hughes |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Mother |
Religion: | Church of England |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
family |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Title: | Locksley Hall |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 3572 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | M.V. Hughes | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | A London Child of the 1870s | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 1934 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 7 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | M.V. Hughes, A London Child of the 1870s (Oxford, 1934), p. 7, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3572, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
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