| Evidence: | 'Father is rehearsing Drake's Drum for Wednesday'. |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1888 and 5 Jan 1902 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: London specific address: 22 Hyde Park Gate, S.W. other location: Kensington Gardens |
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| Reader: | Leslie Stephen |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 28 Nov 1832 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Historian, literary critic, biographer |
| Religion: | Christian |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Virginia and Vanessa Stephen |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Henry John Newbolt |
| Title: | Drake's Drum |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | 1897 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 19074 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Virginia Stephen | |
| Editor: | Nigel Nicholson | |
| Title: | The Flight of the Mind: The Letters of Virginia Woolf | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1975 | |
| Vol: | Volume 1, 1888-1912 | |
| Page: | 47 | |
| Additional comments: | Editor's note: 'Henry John Newbolt (1862-1938), the poet and man of letters. Leslie Stephen much admired his most famous poems, 'Admirals All' and 'Drake's Drum', which he would declaim to his daughters as they walked through Kensington Gardens.' Date of letter tentative, according to the editor. |
| Citation: | Virginia Stephen, Nigel Nicholson (ed.), The Flight of the Mind: The Letters of Virginia Woolf (London, 1975), Volume 1, 1888-1912, p. 47, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19074, accessed: 28 November 2023 | |
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