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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899W. G. Clark, on a reader of Tennyson's 'The Northern Farmer': '[?W. H.] Thompson has been staying at Fryston, where he met a Mr Creyke, a Yorkshireman, with a talent f...anon Alfred TennysonThe Northern FarmerManuscript: Unknown, In hand of 'Mr Creyke.'
1850-1899'May 2nd. [1866] Marlborough [...] In the evening the Bradleys had a large dinner-party. [George] Bradley [headmaster] knowing my father's love of science had asked maste...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe Northern FarmerPrint: Book
1850-1899'May 3rd. [1866] After dinner the Upper Sixth came in, and at their petition [Tennyson] read "Guinevere," refusing however enthronement in a large arm-chair, and assertin...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonGuineverePrint: Book
1850-1899'After dinner [during stay at Marlborough College] my father was again asked to read by Mrs Bradley: "Will it be too cruel to ask you to read "The Grandmother?" [...] A B...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe Northern FarmerPrint: Book
1850-1899'After dinner [during stay at Marlborough College] my father was again asked to read by Mrs Bradley: "Will it be too cruel to ask you to read "The Grandmother?" [...] A B...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe GrandmotherPrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's journal, 17 August 1866: 'We took Lionel [son] to school at Hastings [...] We then left for Park House, Maidstone [...] In the evening, at the Lu...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonIn the Valley of CauteretzUnknown
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's journal, 17 August 1868: 'Dr Hook asked A. to read "Enoch Arden." He replied he could not to-day. Dr Hook thereupon began in fun to read it so ba...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonEnoch ArdenPrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's journal, 17 August 1868: 'Dr Hook asked A. to read "Enoch Arden." He replied he could not to-day. Dr Hook thereupon began in fun to read it so ba...Dr Hook Alfred TennysonEnoch ArdenPrint: Book
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
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
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, 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, 1869: 'Feb. 13th. A. read what he had done of the birth and marriage of "Arthur."'Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson'birth and marriage of "Arthur"'Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869: 'Before the end of February A. had read me all "The Coming of Arthur" finished, and was reading at night Browning's "Ring and the ...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe Coming of ArthurManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869: 'May 18th. A. read the "San Graal." I doubt whether the "San Graal" would have been written but for my endeavour, and the Queen's ...Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson"The San Graal"Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899From Frederick Locker-Lampson's recollections of Tennyson: 'I once met Tennyson at dinner at the Conservative Club, in company with Dicky Doyle, Sir J. Emerson Tennent...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonMaudUnknown
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 Alfred TennysonIdylls of the KingUnknown
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: '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
1850-1899Edward Fitzgerald to Alfred Tennyson (1873): 'I have a word to say about "Gareth" which your publisher sent me as "from the author." I don't think it is mere perversit...Edward Fitzgerald Alfred TennysonGarethPrint: Book


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