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Record Number: 3445


Reading Experience:

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".'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Between 1 Nov 1876 and 30 Nov 1876

Country:

Wales

Time

morning
afternoon
daytime

Place:

specific address: Hawarden

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

passive in company unknown
single serial unknown


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

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

W. E. Gladstone


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Alfred Tennyson

Title:

Harold

Genre:

Drama, Poetry

Form of Text:

Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

3445

Source:

Print

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/RED/record_details.php?id=3445, accessed: 29 March 2024


Additional Comments:

Quotation from Lucy Masterman, ed., Mary Gladstone: Her Diaries and Letters (1930), 1 Nov. 1876.

   
   
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