Record Number: 3430
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Theodore Watts-Dunton remembers Algernon Swinburne's fondness for reading aloud during his last years at Watts-Dunton's home: "... he would read for the hour together from Dickens, Lamb, Charles Reade and Thackeray."'
Century:1850-1899
Date:unknown
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: London
specific address: The Pines, Putney
(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:n/a
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:n/a
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
probably, but unknown
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:[unknown]
Genre:Fiction, Drama
Form of Text:Print: Unknown
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:3430
Source:Philip Waller
Editor:n/a
Title:Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918
Place of Publication:Oxford
Date of Publication:2006
Vol:n/a
Page:365
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
Philip Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918, (Oxford, 2006), p. 365, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=3430, accessed: 10 November 2024
Additional Comments:
Quotation from Theodore Watts-Dunton, Old Familiar Faces (1916) 19.