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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'When the Duke of Argyll ... visited Farringford, Tennyson read his "Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington" (1852) ...'Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonOde on the Death of the Duke of WellingtonUnknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		I always have a profound impression that human beings have been much more like each other than we fancy since they got rid of their tails & that the great outbursts of sp...Leslie Stephen Alfred Tennyson Print: Book
1850-1899"This bit of Tennyson sticks in my head; so I write it down: - 'All along the valley where the waters flow / I walked with one I loved two & thirty years ago / All along ...Leslie Stephen Alfred TennysonIn the Valley of the CauteretzPrint: Book
1850-1899' ... [13-to-14-year-old Constance Maynard's] most intimate contact with reading .. took place ... in a secluded corner of the garden, where she haphazardly consumed Milt...Constance Maynard Alfred TennysonpoetryPrint: Book
1850-1899Joan Evans, "Prelude and Fugue: An Autobiography" (1964): 'One of my few conscious naughtinesses after I had attained the age of perception was to steal into the drawing-...Joan Evans Alfred TennysonpoetryPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"Mary Stocks (b. 1891) recorded how her Aunt Tiddy made great efforts to preserve her and her siblings from 'indelicacy' [quotes from Stocks's account of how one of the p...Tiddy Alfred Tennysonpoems including The RevengePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"Mary Stocks (b. 1891) recorded how her Aunt Tiddy made great efforts to preserve her and her siblings from 'indelicacy' [quotes from Stocks's account of how one of the p...Mary Stocks and siblingsAlfred Tennysonpoems including The RevengePrint: Book
1850-1899'Uncle Richard had adored Ruskin, and worshipped Morris, and had slept for years with a copy of "In Memoriam" under his pillow. He told me once how he and his friends use...Richard Litchfield Alfred TennysonIn MemoriamPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Henry James to E. C. Stedman, 1 September 1875: "My pretentions, in attenpting to talk about Tennyson [in review of Queen Mary], were very modest ... I know him only as w...Henry James Alfred TennysonunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Elizabeth Boott 30 October 1878, on lunch that day with Tennyson at his home, : "He read out 'Locksley Hall' to me, in a kind of solemn, sonorous chant, an...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonLocksley HallUnknown
1850-1899Harriet Martineau to E. J. Furnival, 5 October 1851, thanking him for a copy of Tennyson's "In Memoriam": 'Like most other people (whom I have met with, at least), I shra...Harriet Martineau Alfred TennysonIn Memoriam A. H. H.Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Harriet Martineau to E. J. Furnival, 5 October 1851, thanking him for a copy of Tennyson's [italics]In Memoriam[end italics]: 'Like most other people (whom I have met wit...Harriet Martineau Alfred TennysonThe PrincessPrint: Book
1850-1899'On the day that the bloody battle of Gravellote was fought [August 18, 1870] they [Hardy and Emma] were reading Tennyson in the grounds of the rectory.'Thomas Hardy and his wife Emma GiffordAlfred Tennyson[Unknown - Poetry]Unknown
1800-1849Robert Browning to Alfred Domett, 13 July 1842: 'I send this with Tennyson's new vol -- The alterations are insane. WhatEVER is touched is spoiled [...] Locksley Ha...Robert Browning Alfred TennysonPoemsPrint: Book
1850-1899'By the way what awful trash Tennyson's serial poetry is just now. To think of the man who wrote the 'Lotus Eaters' 'St Simeon Stylites' et caetera.'Robert Louis Stevenson Alfred TennysonThe Lotus Eaters/St Simeon StylitesPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, ?24 August 1836: 'You have not read all Tennyson's poems -- neither have I -- but did you see his "mermaid" at the end of ...Elizabeth Barrett Alfred Tennyson'The Mermaid'Print: Serial / periodical
1850-18993 November 1857: 'In the evening we all went over to the Camerons [i.e. Charles Hay, and Julia Margaret Cameron]. Several Pre-Raphaelite artists were there to meet Ten...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonMorte d'ArthurPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 15 May 1842: 'I ought to be thanking you for your great kindness about this divine Tennyson [...] But notwithstanding the poetry of the...Elizabeth Barrett Alfred TennysonPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 9 December 1842: 'Do you really object to the re-iteration of [italics]Oriana[end italics] [in Tennyson's poem of that nam...Elizabeth Barrett Alfred Tennyson'Oriana'Print: Book
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 13 December 1842: 'I read Tennyson. "Locksley Hall" is very fine; but should it not have finished at '"I myself must mix...Mary Russell Mitford Alfred Tennyson'Locksley Hall'Print: Book


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