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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899Herbert Spencer to Alfred Tennyson [1855]: 'I happened recently to be re-reading your Poem "The Two Voices," and coming to the verse 'Or if thro' lower lives I came...Herbert Spencer Alfred TennysonThe Two VoicesPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the summer of 1861 we travelled in Auvergne and the Pyrenees [...] At Mont Dore, while my father was reading some of the Iliad out aloud to us, little boys came and s...Alfred Tennyson Homer The IliadPrint: Book
1850-1899Alfred Tennyson to the Duke of Argyll, from the Temple, London, on return from French holiday of summer 1861: 'I had intended to write yesterday [...] and I scarce kno...Alfred Tennyson Zohrab the HostagePrint: Book
1850-1899'Jan. 19th. [1862] Princess Alice wrote to my father about the Dedication of the "Idylls" to [her father] the Prince Consort: '[...] Mr Tennyson could not have chosen ...Queen Victoria Alfred TennysonDedication, Idylls of the KingPrint: Book
1850-1899The Crown Princess of Prussia to Alfred Tennyson, 23 February 1862: 'The first time I ever heard the "Idylls of the King" was last year, when I found both the Queen an...Prince Albert Alfred TennysonGuineverePrint: Book
1850-1899Alfred Tennyson to the Duke of Argyl, 3 March 1862: 'Your letter a little dismayed me, for, as you in the prior one had bound me by no promise of secrecy, I, in talkin...Queen Victoria Alfred TennysonIn MemoriamPrint: Book
1850-1899Edward Fitzgerald to Alfred Tennyson, Christmas 1862: 'I have, as usual, nothing to tell of myself: boating all the summer and reading Clarissa Harlowe since; you and ...Edward Fitzgerald Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1850-1899Alfred Tennyson to Lady Augusta Bruce, 12 May 1863, after being sent an 'Album' belonging to Queen Victoria, with the request that he write something in it before returni...Alfred Tennyson Duchess of KentinscriptionManuscript: Unknown, In Album belonging to Queen Victoria
1850-1899Alfred Tennyson to Lady Augusta Bruce, 12 May 1863, after being sent an 'Album' belonging to Queen Victoria, with the request that he write something in it before returni...Alfred Tennyson Johann Wolfgang von Goethe'Edel sei der Mensch'Manuscript: Unknown, Written by Prince Albert into Album belonging to Queen Victoria.
1850-1899Alfred Tennyson to Lady Augusta Bruce, 12 May 1863, after receiving from Queen Victoria, on 11 May, books including 'Guizot's edition of Prince Albert's Speeches': 'I ...Alfred Tennyson GuizotPreface to Speeches of Prince AlbertPrint: Book
1850-1899From Thomas Wilson's 'Reminiscences' of Tennyson (1863-64): 'He came into my room one day looking for any new book to feed upon: he took down one by Stevenson called P...Alfred Tennyson StevensonPraying and WorkingPrint: Book
1850-1899From William Allingham's 'Reminiscences' of Tennyson (1863-64): 'Oct. 3rd, 1863. Saturday. We drove to Farringford [...] Drawing-room tea [...] I wandered to the book-...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonpoetryPrint: Book
1850-1899'Up this morning in good time & had a long read of the Argus before I went into the office.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening I read some little tit bits from Dr [Syntax?] to the youngsters'John Buckley Castieau [unknown]Dr SyntaxPrint: Book
1850-1899'A district visitor was delivering tracts among a large meeting of some poor folk to whom she had lately read part of "Enoch Arden." "Thank you ma'am," one old lady said,...anon Alfred TennysonEnoch ArdenPrint: Book
1850-1899Robert Browning to Alfred Tennyson, 13 October 1864: 'I have been two months away, and only just find your book now [...] "Enoch" continues the perfect thing I thought...Robert Browning Alfred TennysonEnoch ArdenPrint: Book
1850-1899Robert Browning to Alfred Tennyson, 13 October 1864: 'I have been two months away, and only just find your book now [...] "Enoch" continues the perfect thing I thought...Robert Browning Alfred TennysonThe Northern Farmer Print: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's diary (1865): 'June 8th. We went home by Winchester and slept there, and lunched with the Warburtons [...] He [Tennyson] and Mr Warburton compare...Alfred Tennyson Book of JobPrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's diary (1865): 'Oct. 6th. A. read me some Lucretius, and the 1st Epistle of St Peter. (At work on his new poem of "Lucretius.")'Alfred Tennyson Lucretius  Print: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's diary (1865): 'Oct. 6th. A. read me some Lucretius, and the 1st Epistle of St Peter. (At work on his new poem of "Lucretius.")'Alfred Tennyson St PeterFirst EpistlePrint: Book


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