Record Number: 3435

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'In 1864 George Du Maurier witnessed ... [a] bravura performance [by Swinburne] at a bachelor party in the studio of the artist Simeon Solomon ... "For three hours he spouted his poetry to us, and it was of a power, beauty and originality unequalled."'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

1864

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Algernon Swinburne

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1837

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

unknown

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

George Du Maurier

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Algernon Swinburne

Title:

unknown

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

3435

Source:

Print

Author:

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:

366

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Philip Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918, (Oxford, 2006), p. 366, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=3435, accessed: 30 April 2025

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Additional Comments:

Quotation from Leonee Ormond, George Du Maurier (1969) 173.