Record Number: 19074
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Father is rehearsing Drake's Drum for Wednesday'.
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Jan 1888 and 5 Jan 1902
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: London
specific address: 22 Hyde Park Gate, S.W.
other location: Kensington Gardens
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
passive in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: 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
Virginia and Vanessa Stephen
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Drake's Drum
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Details1897
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:19074
Source: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://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19074, accessed: 17 August 2024
Additional Comments:
None