Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
Hostname: page-component-7479d7b7d-c9gpj Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-13T03:45:18.272Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Stratford-upon-Avon a Hundred Years Ago

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2007

By
Allardyce Nicoll
Edited by
Allardyce Nicoll
Get access

Summary

The manuscript diary from which these extracts are taken was made by the Rev. William Harness in 1844. Harness, born in 1790, a lifelong friend of Mary Russell Mitford, had a wide acquaintanceship with literary men and actors of his time; and, as his notes show, he was a fervent admirer of Shakespeare, an edition of whose works, in eight volumes, he brought out in 1825. An interesting reference is made in one of his letters to the pious task he carried out in restoring the inscriptions on the Shakespeare tombstones during his visit to Stratford:

I have [he wrote to his sister], had the Epitaph restored to Mrs Hall’s tombstone; and am now having the letters refreshed on the stones of Dr Hall her husband, and Mr Nash who was the first husband of Shakespeare’s granddaughter, and the heiress of Mrs Hall. Shakespeare and his wife and these three all lie together side by side in front of the altar. This restoration will not cost me more than £3. How strange that it should have been left for me to do; and I’m making a step towards saving the money by leaving off sugar, which Dr Thompson advised me to do, and I find a great improvement in the tea, now I’m used to it.

Type
Chapter
Information
Shakespeare Survey , pp. 110 - 115
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1961

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×