Record Number: 14715
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Scott was the first great writer to draw me under his spell - the first to open for me the golden gates of poetry and romance. I can well remember the time when, a mere child, I would spend my half-holidays over "Ivanhoe" and "the Lay of the Last Minstrel", seated in rapt silence on a hassock in my father's library, in our old house at Bristol. I can well remember, too, how I would carry fragments of these enthralling stories to my fellows at school, resolved, with all the enthusiasm of boyhood, to make them willing or unwilling partakers of my pleasure. The men and women of whom I read and told were real figures to us then; and in the organization of our little school we lived out a kind of chivalrous life, even emulating, to the no small alarm of our elders, the scenes on sherwood forest, and the achievements at ashby-de-la-Zouche.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Between 1 Jan 1870 and 31 Dec 1875
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Bristol
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:Child (0-17)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:2 May 1862
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Schoolboy
Religion:Anglican
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
Schoolfriends present at subsequent re-tellings.
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Ivanhoe
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceread in situ
Read in father's library
Source Information:
Record ID:14715
Source:William Henry Hudson
Editor:n/a
Title:Sir Walter Scott
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1901
Vol:n/a
Page:ix
Additional Comments:
Author's Preface to his biography of Scott.
Citation:
William Henry Hudson, Sir Walter Scott, (London, 1901), p. ix, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=14715, accessed: 04 December 2024
Additional Comments:
Not clear if actual reading or recitation involved in the re-tellings, rather than paraphrase.