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George Sturt

 

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George Sturt :  The Bettesworth Book

It is amusing to find him writing to Sturt, in 1900, to persuade him that it would be a good idea to try to sell 'Bettesworth' to Pearson's (a firm for which he was not a reader and adviser)- he suggests that he himself write a preface for it, and that it be published under the title 'Talks with my Gardener: a study of the English peasant.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Manuscript: Sheet

  

George Sturt : letter

'Six weeks since I received your letter! ... I have no great interest in the theory of our sacred art.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Manuscript: Letter

  

George Sturt : Fruit Blossom Time

'What pleasure hast thou given me during the last few days! First your letter then your essay ?Fruit Blossom Time? & then your nameless novel.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Manuscript: Letter, Sheet

  

George Sturt : [unnamed novel]

'What pleasure hast thou given me during the last few days! First your letter then your essay "Fruit Blossom Time" & then your nameless novel. ...I am in a fever to finish the novel. Ken made me turn it up when I was at part ten. I shall, Sturto volente, animadvert at length upon it at a future date, Now, I will only say that I like it very much. Its calm, unabashed realism charms me. You find fault with Maupassant for his wealth of irrelevant ... detail. Frankly, I think you would do well to follow him some way in this. I don't think all his detail is irrelevant. . . . No, I believe in detail.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Manuscript: Letter, Sheet

  

George Sturt : A Courting Umbrella

'But in the case of a story like yours, which is over the heads of the foolish, amiable readers of our "bright little paper", but which I should like, for the good of literature & the credit of Woman, to have in the paper, I should prefer to throw the responsibility for the acceptance on my Editor?s shoulders.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Manuscript: Sheet

  

George Sturt : A Year's Exile

'For exercise I have just ridden over to Ken?s for your novel, though I am so busy I haven?t time to read it today. I have, however, snatched 20 minutes for the first two chapters. The first, to me, at first reading, is somewhat shadowy, but the second, my pippin, is positively masterly.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Unknown

  

George Sturt : A Year's Exile

'Well, Sir, I have read your novel, & I am ready to bet a guinea to a gooseberry that, if read by Street, it will not be refused by John Lane for reasons artistic. ? It is one of the most genuinely original novels that I have ever read; I don?t mean original in design, but in the outlook of the author.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Manuscript: Sheet

  

George Sturt : voyage diary

'P.S. I also return the voyage diary. It is excellent, & I was very pleased with it.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Manuscript: Unknown

  

George Sturt : A Note on Fiction

'With regard to your article, though admiring of the ingenuity of it, I yearned to tear the argument to rags. There is scarcely a single statement in that article to which I do not take violent exception. . . . Webster was intensely pleased with it, dreamed of it I believe, & only his modesty stopped him from addressing you thereon a note of congratulation. Marriott read it with awe; possibly it opened his eye to the strange fact that other arts than painting have their absorbing mysteries of technique.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Serial / periodical

  

George Sturt : A Year's Exile

'I read 'A Year?s Exile' during the three hours? journey down here on Thursday afternoon, & have passed it on to Frank to review in Woman. As for me, I shall review it in Hearth & Home. I have now read it twice, and come to a definite conclusion about it.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

  

George Sturt : Some Peasant Women

''I am glad to be able to praise your article in this month?s Cornhill with less reserve than you praise my novel.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Serial / periodical

  

George Sturt : A Small Boy in the Sixties

I have just written an introduction to a posthumous work of George Sturt’s (who generally wrote under the name of George Bourne—very good. I mean really). In order to write it I read through all the letters I received from him in the course of about 28 years.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

  

George Bourne [pseud. of George Sturt] : The Ascending Effort

'It my be that I failed to understand "The Ascending Effort", but I did not mean to treat Bourne disrespectfully. [But] you will admit that Bourne's writing in its slightly grotesque heaviness made it very difficult to read the whole book in a spirit of impartiality[...].'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

 

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