| Evidence: | 'On this journey [to the Western Pyrenees] he took Balzac's novels with him, especially delighting in Le pere Goriot and Eugenie Grandet.' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 May 1875 and 1 Sep 1875 | ||||||||||
| Country: | France | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| 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: | France |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Honore de Balzac |
| Title: | Le Pere Goriot |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 22814 | |
| Source - | ||
| 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: | 211 n.1 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Hallam Tennyson, Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir by His Son (London, 1897), 2, p. 211 n.1, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=22814, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
| Source authors's note accompanies record in main text that 'In the summer my mother had sufficiently recovered to go with my father, my brother and myself to Pau, whence my father and I made a tour in the Western Pyrenees' (p.211). |
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