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Austin Dobson

 

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Henry Austin Dobson : Fanny Burney

On p. 206 (last page of text) 'Read Novr 13th/19th 1903 L A W' in pencil manuscript. In addition, a bookplate on inside front cover: 'Laurence A. Waldron.' with a coat of arm above, that carries the legend 'Spectemur Agendo'.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Laurence A Waldron      Print: Book

  

Austin Dobson : unknown

'She announced among other things that Longfellow was her favourite poet. “Byron is nice too” she added “Especially his Elegy on the death of a mad dog.”!!! Shakespeare she has some little knowledge of – His fairies & pucks are nice – but he can’t come up to Longfellow. I nearly died with inward mirth. She vows she is going to devote herself to Literature when she grows up: but she really does appreciate good poetry – I read her some Scott one afternoon, & she understood & liked it – and then I found her an Austin-Dobson – and read her things for nearly an hour, out of his Idylls – and you should have seen how her eyes glistened as she took it all in. She expressed a wish to have something of his – and in half an hour she had mastered both the spirit & matter of “the little blue Mandarin”.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Cornelia Sorabji      Print: Book

 

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