Record Number: 21441
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
The octogenarian Bewicke Blackburne to Alfred Tennyson, 6 August 1891: '"Long life to your honour," as Irish peasants used to say, and so say I, the man who was working the State quarry, on the Island of Valencia, when you spent a few days there in 1848, Chartist times in London and Fenian times in Ireland [...] Your sonorous reading to us after dinner sundry truculent passages in Daniel O'Connell's History of Ireland, which happened to be lying on my table, has lingered in my ears ever since. Seeing among my few books all that your friend Carlyle had up to that time published, you told me you thought he had nothing more to say. I was often reminded of this whilst reading his subsequent Cromwell and Frederick and Latter Days, and how near that was to the truth.'
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 1 Jan 1848 and 31 Dec 1848
Country:Ireland
Timeevening
Place:city: Valencia
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: 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:Ireland
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
Bewicke Blackburne
Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:History of Ireland
Genre:History, Politics
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceread in situ
Source Information:
Record ID:21441
Source:Hallam Tennyson
Editor:n/a
Title:Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir by His Son
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1897
Vol:1
Page:291-2 n.1
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Hallam Tennyson, Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir by His Son, (London, 1897), 1, p. 291-2 n.1, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=21441, accessed: 29 September 2024
Additional Comments:
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