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Record Number: 27527


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

17 July 1859: 'I sat, very sad, in the garden [at Exeter House], took up Tennyson's Guinevere, and was engrossed with it. Arthur is the noblest creature that ever lived in fiction. What a speech is that of his on parting with the Queen. I can never read it without tears.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

17 Jul 1859

Country:

n/a

Time

n/a

Place:

specific address: Exeter House
location in dwelling: garden

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Lady Charlotte Schreiber

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

1812

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

n/a

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Alfred Tennyson

Title:

Guinevere

Genre:

Fiction, Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

In Idylls of the King

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

27527

Source:

Print

Author:

Lady Charlotte Schreiber

Editor:

Earl of Bessborough

Title:

Lady Charlotte Schreiber. Extracts from her Journal 1853-1891

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1952

Vol:

n/a

Page:

109

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Lady Charlotte Schreiber, Earl of Bessborough (ed.), Lady Charlotte Schreiber. Extracts from her Journal 1853-1891 (London, 1952), p. 109, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=27527, accessed: 26 April 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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