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George Frederick Cooke : Memoirs of George Frederick Cooke, late of the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 December 1813, on pleasure at learning of his works' popularity in the USA: "The greatest pleasure I ever derived, of this kind, was from an extract, in Cooke the actor's life, from his journal, saying that in the reading-room of Albany, near Washington, he perused English Bards and Scotch Reviewers."

Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron      Print: Book

  

Cooke : Memoirs

1 December 1884, from Canford: 'While Enid [daughter] was here she spent a good deal of time making a miniature drawing in water colours of one of the fine pictures in the drawing room, and while she drew I read to her one of those amusing gossiping letters of Horace Walpole on my subjects [i.e. ceramics connoisseurship], about which I have all the Hogarth and all the Wedgwood books here [...] Besides that I have done very little except read some part of Cooke's Memoirs, and I am now amusing myself with Froude's Carlyle.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

 

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