| Evidence: | 'In 1864 George Du Maurier witnessed ... [a] bravura performance [by Swinburne] at a bachelor party in the studio of the artist Simeon Solomon ... "For three hours he spouted his poetry to us, and it was of a power, beauty and originality unequalled."' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 1864 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Algernon Swinburne |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1837 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Religion: | unknown |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
George Du Maurier |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Algernon Swinburne |
| Title: | unknown |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Unknown |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 3435 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Philip Waller | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 | |
| Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
| Date of Publication: | 2006 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 366 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Philip Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 (Oxford, 2006), p. 366, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3435, accessed: 31 March 2023 | |
| Quotation from Leonee Ormond, George Du Maurier (1969) 173. |
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