| Evidence: | 'On the day in question, I was unable to endure the drawing-room meeting to its close, but, clutching my volume of the Funeral Poets, I made a dash for the garden...Then I opened my book for consolation, and read a great block of pompous verse out of "The Deity", in the midst of which exercise, yielding to the softness of the hot and aromatic air, I fell fast asleep.' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jun 1862 and 31 Aug 1862 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | county: Devon location in dwelling: garden of family home, Devon |
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| Reader: | Edmund Gosse |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1849 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | son of zoological writer |
| Religion: | Plymouth Brethren |
| 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: | Samuel Boyse |
| Title: | The Deity |
| Genre: | Other religious, Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 11256 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Edmund Gosse | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Father and Son: a study of two temperments | |
| Place of Publication: | Keele: Ryburn Publishing | |
| Date of Publication: | 1994 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 173 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Edmund Gosse, Father and Son: a study of two temperments (Keele: Ryburn Publishing, 1994), p. 173, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=11256, accessed: 08 June 2023 | |
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