Record Number: 22822
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
[Mary Brotherton writes] 'I told him [Tennyson] the story [of the eighteenth-century woman soldier Phoebe Hessel] one day at Farringford, knowing it would touch him, and he came up to see my husband and me next day, and asked me to tell it him again: on whch I gave him the little penny magazine I found it in. It was an unpretentious account of "Old Brighton." Many months after he took me up to his library, after a walk, and read me what he called "Bones." That was before it was called "Rizpah" and published.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:unknown
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:county: Isle of Wight
specific address: Farringford
location in dwelling: Library
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:6 Aug 1809
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
Mary Brotherton
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:'Bones'
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Unknown
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:22822
Source:Hallam Tennyson
Editor:n/a
Title:Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir by His Son
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1897
Vol:2
Page:249 n.1
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Hallam Tennyson, Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir by His Son, (London, 1897), 2, p. 249 n.1, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=22822, accessed: 15 May 2024
Additional Comments:
Note accompanies extract from Tennyson's MS notes to his 1880 ballads and poems in which he records: '"Rizpah" is founded on an incident which I saw thus related in some penny magazine called Old Brighton, lent to me by my friend and neighbour Mrs Brotherton' (p.249).
