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Record 22794

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'He [Tennyson] had been reading Motley's Dutch Republic.'
Century: 1850-1899
Date: Between 1 Mar 1874 and 10 Apr 1874
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
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:Alfred Tennyson
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 6 Aug 1809
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Writer
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Motley
Title: Dutch Republic
Genre: History, Geography / Travel, Politics
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 22794  
Source - Print  
  Author: Hallam Tennyson
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir by His Son
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1897
  Vol: 2
  Page: 156 n.1
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Hallam Tennyson, Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir by His Son (London, 1897), 2, p. 156 n.1, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=22794, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

Source author's note accompanies Emily Tennyson's Journal entry for 10 April 1874, in which it is recorded: 'Lately we have been reading Holinshed and Froude's Mary, for A. has been thinking about a play of "Queen Mary," [...] For a time he had thought of "William the Silent," but he said that our own history was so great, and that he liked English subjects best, and knew most about them, and that consequently he should do "Queen Mary."'

 

 

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