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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869: 'Sept. 13th. [...] Read the "Idylls" through in their proper sequence during these months, also Tom Hughes' Alfred the Great, Pres...Emily Tennyson MartineauEndeavours After a Christian LifePrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869: 'Sept. 13th. [...] Read the "Idylls" through in their proper sequence during these months, also Tom Hughes' Alfred the Great, Pres...Emily Tennyson LeckyEuropean MoralsPrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1870: 'March 1st. Aldworth. Hallam read the 4th Aeneid with A.; they study Virgil together daily.'Alfred and Hallam TennysonVirgil Aeneid IVPrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1870: 'Nov. 8th. [...] A. read me Pepys' Diary [...] We read about starlings in Morris; I did not know (what A. had put into his Idyll [...Alfred Tennyson Samuel PepysDiaryPrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1870: 'Nov. 8th. [...] A. read me Pepys' Diary [...] We read about starlings in Morris; I did not know (what A. had put into his Idyll [...Alfred and Emily Tennyson Morris?work on ornithologyPrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1871: 'Aug. 31st. [...] A. drove to the Lewes'. He read to them, and last of all at G. H. Lewes' request "Guinevere," which made George ...Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson'Guinevere'Unknown
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1871: 'February. A. [...] read to me some of the Edinburgh Royal Society Transactions.' Alfred Tennyson Edinburgh Royal Society TransactionsPrint: Unknown
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1871: 'May 21st. He [Tennyson] read me his "Tristram" ("Last Tournament"), the plan of which he had been for some weeks discussing with ...Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson'Tristram'Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1871: 'Sept. 1st. A. [...] is very cheerful, and is reading me a book about Russia. He is interested in the strange sects among the Russ...Alfred Tennyson 'book about Russia'Print: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1871: 'Sept. 1st. A. [...] is very cheerful, and is reading me a book about Russia. He is interested in the strange sects among the Russ...Alfred Tennyson Fraser's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1871: 'Sept. 4th. We both read Browning's Balaustion. Heracles the free, the joyous, the strong, the self-sacrificer, a grand creation.'...Alfred and Emily TennysonRobert BrowningBalaustionPrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1872: 'Aug. 7th. We went to Paris. A. [...] bought and read many volumes of Victor Hugo and Alfred de Musset.'Alfred Tennyson Victor Hugo Print: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1872: 'Aug. 7th. We went to Paris. A. [...] bought and read many volumes of Victor Hugo and Alfred de Musset.'Alfred Tennyson Alfred de Musset Print: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1872: 'June 22nd. Farringford. Every night A. has read Shakespeare, or Pascal, or Montesquieu (Decadence des Romains).' Alfred Tennyson William Shakespeare Print: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1872: 'June 22nd. Farringford. Every night A. has read Shakespeare, or Pascal, or Montesquieu (Decadence des Romains).' Alfred Tennyson Pascal Print: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1872: 'June 22nd. Farringford. Every night A. has read Shakespeare, or Pascal, or Montesquieu (Decadence des Romains).' Alfred Tennyson MontesquieuDecadence des RomainsPrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1872: 'Sept. 5th. Returned [from Continental travels] by Lausanne and Amiens to Aldworth. A. read Le Lendemain de la Mort on the way.'Alfred Tennyson Le Lendemain de la MortPrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, January 1869: 'A. read "The Holy Grail" to the Bradleys, explaining the realism and symbolism, and how the natural, if people cared, cou...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe Holy GrailManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's journal: 'Sept. 23rd. [1868] We took Lionel [son] to Eton, and left him in Mr Stone's house. At Mr Warre's request A. read the "San Graal" MS com...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe San GraalManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's journal: 'Sept. 9th. [1868] A. read me a bit of his "San Graal," which he has now begun. 'Sept. 11th. He read me more of the "San Graal": very...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe San GraalManuscript: Unknown


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