'On the 21st February [1851] their [Alfred and Emily Tennyson's] diary reads: "We read Alton Locke"'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred and Emily Tennyson Print: Book
'Throughout the autumn and winter evenings [of 1854] he [Alfred Tennyson] translated aloud to my mother the sixth Aeneid of Virgil and Homer's description of Hades, and they read Dante's Inferno together. Whewell's Plurality of Worlds he also carefully studied. "It is to me anything," he writes, "but a satisfactory book. It is inconceivable that the whole Universe was created merely for us who live in this third-rate planet of a third-rate sun."'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred and Emily Tennyson Print: Book
'When Millais left, my parents read together Souvestre's account of the Bretons. The fact that their most popular national songs are religious and that, when the cholera was among them, they would not listen to the doctors until they put their advice in song, set to national airs, struck my father.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred and Emily Tennyson Print: Book
'On his [Tennyson's] return [to Farringford] the evening books were Milton, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Thackeray's Humourists, some of Hallam's History and of Carlyle's Cromwell.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred and Emily Tennyson Print: Book
'On his [Tennyson's] return [to Farringford] the evening books were Milton, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Thackeray's Humourists, some of Hallam's History and of Carlyle's Cromwell.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred and Emily Tennyson Print: Book
'On his [Tennyson's] return [to Farringford] the evening books were Milton, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Thackeray's Humourists, some of Hallam's History and of Carlyle's Cromwell.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred and Emily Tennyson Print: Book
'On his [Tennyson's] return [to Farringford] the evening books were Milton, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Thackeray's Humourists, some of Hallam's History and of Carlyle's Cromwell.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred and Emily Tennyson Print: Book
'On his [Tennyson's] return [to Farringford] the evening books were Milton, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Thackeray's Humourists, some of Hallam's History and of Carlyle's Cromwell.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred and Emily Tennyson Print: Book
'With the help of local schoolmasters in Wales my parents had learned some Welsh, and now read together the Hanes Cymru (Welsh History), the Mabinogion and Llywarch Hen.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred and Emily Tennyson Print: Book
'With the help of local schoolmasters in Wales my parents had learned some Welsh, and now read together the Hanes Cymru (Welsh History), the Mabinogion and Llywarch Hen.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred and Emily Tennyson Print: Book
'With the help of local schoolmasters in Wales my parents had learned some Welsh, and now read together the Hanes Cymru (Welsh History), the Mabinogion and Llywarch Hen.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred and Emily Tennyson Print: Book
'On Feb. 17th [1861] my father told my mother about his plan for a new poem, "The Northern Farmer."
'By the evening of Feb. 18th he had already written down a great part of "The Northern Farmer" [...] They also read of Sir Gareth in the Morte d'Arthur.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred and Emily Tennyson Print: Book
From 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 ["The Last Tournament"] by his own observation) that the starlings in June, after they have brought up their young ones, congregate in flocks in a reedy place for the sake of sociability.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred and Emily Tennyson Print: Book
From 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.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred and Emily Tennyson Print: Book
From Emily Tennyson's Journal (1873):
'Sept. 5th. [...] Bauer-Sierre. Returned through Domo d'Ossola over the Simplon. The coming over was a great disappointment. Thick mist the whole of the way except the first half-hour when we started from the Simplon Inn [...] During the evening we consoled ourselves by reading Lelia by George Sand'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred and Emily Tennyson Print: Unknown
From Emily Tennyson's Journal (1874):
'Lately we have been reading Holinshed and Froude's Mary, for A. has been thinking about a play of "Queen Mary," and has sketched two or three scenes.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred and Emily Tennyson Print: Book
From Emily Tennyson's Journal (1874):
'Lately we have been reading Holinshed and Froude's Mary, for A. has been thinking about a play of "Queen Mary," and has sketched two or three scenes.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred and Emily Tennyson Print: Book
