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J Morley
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John Morley : Life of George Eliot
'Thank you very much for the "Life of George Eliot," and for the kind and flattering inscription. I am very glad to have the book, which is as curious a book as any I ever saw. The personality of the great writer is as yet very confusing to me in the extreme flatness of the picture. I don't mean by flatness dulness [sic], though there is something of that, but only that it is like mural paintings or sculpture in very low relief. I have just run over your reviewer's article and think it very good.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book
John Morley : On Compromise
"Morley has just published a book on 'Compromise'; out of the Fortnightly. I think his writing improves. It seems to me good & dignified without being too much like a sermon."
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book
J. Morley : article on Byron
Henry James, in letter to Charles Eliot Norton, 16 January 1871, mentions "just having read in the Fortnightly for December two articles by your two friends F. Harrison and J. Morley, on Bismark and Byron respectively."
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Serial / periodical
John Morley : The Struggle for National Education
'I have read Morley's second article on Education today'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Serial / periodical
John, Viscount Morley : unknown
2 March 1918: '[On 19 February] we went to Asheham [...] I saw no-one; for 5 days I wasn't in a state for reading [due to influenza]; but I did finally read Morley & other books; but reading when done to kill time has a kind of drudgy look in it [...] One day I sat in the garden reading Shakespeare; I remember the ecstacy'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book
John Morley : Oliver Cromwell
'F. Edminson read an able review of Morley's Life of Cromwell and A. Rawlings read a ['charming' inserted in another hand and crossed out] paper on Wm Morris.'