Record Number: 3401

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Newman Flower, born in 1879, was running from the classroom at Weymouth College to his housemaster's in a snowstorm when someone ... shouted: '"Tennyson's dead!" And in my pocket was a volume of Tennyson's poems, for we had been doing In Memoriam that afternoon.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

unknown

Country:

England

Time

daytime

Place:

specific address: Weymouth College

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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reading Group:

school class at Weymouth College

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Unknown

Date of Birth:

1892

Socio-Economic Group:

Unknown/NA

Occupation:

Student

Religion:

unknown

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Alfred Tennyson

Title:

In Memoriam

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

3401

Source:

Print

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:

214

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Philip Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918, (Oxford, 2006), p. 214, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=3401, accessed: 18 December 2024

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Additional Comments:

None