Record Number: 3404
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'A grim account of the menage [at Theodore Watts-Dunton's home The Pines, Putney, where the poet Swinburne went to live after his health failed] was given to the poet Wilfrid Blunt by his cousin George Wyndham, whose visit in 1891 had "ended in Watts reading out his own poems instead of letting Swinburne read his." [recorded in Blunt's diary for 7 August 1891]'
Century:1850-1899
Date:1891
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Putney
specific address: The Pines
(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:n/a
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer
Religion:unknown
Country of Origin:unknown
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
Algernon Charles Swinburne George Wyndham
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:poems
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Unknown
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:3404
Source: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:226
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Philip Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918, (Oxford, 2006), p. 226, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=3404, accessed: 18 July 2024
Additional Comments:
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