Evidence: | 'Scott was the first great writer to draw me under his spell - the first to open for me the golden gates of poetry and romance. I can well remember the time when, a mere child, I would spend my half-holidays over "Ivanhoe" and "the Lay of the Last Minstrel", seated in rapt silence on a hassock in my father's library, in our old house at Bristol. I can well remember, too, how I would carry fragments of these enthralling stories to my fellows at school, resolved, with all the enthusiasm of boyhood, to make them willing or unwilling partakers of my pleasure. The men and women of whom I read and told were real figures to us then; and in the organization of our little school we lived out a kind of chivalrous life, even emulating, to the no small alarm of our elders, the scenes on sherwood forest, and the achievements at ashby-de-la-Zouche.' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1870 and 1875 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Bristol location in dwelling: Library |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | William Henry Hudson |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | n/a |
Date of Birth | 2 May 1862 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Schoolboy |
Religion: | Anglican |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Schoolfriends present at subsequent re-tellings. |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Sir Walter Scott |
Title: | The Lay of the Last Minstrel |
Genre: | Fiction, Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | read in situ Read in father's library |
Record ID: | 14716 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | William Henry Hudson | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Sir Walter Scott | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1901 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | ix | |
Additional comments: | Author's Preface to his biography of Scott. |
Citation: | William Henry Hudson, Sir Walter Scott (London, 1901), p. ix, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=14716, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
Not clear if actual reading or recitation involved in the re-tellings, rather than paraphrase. |
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