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Janet Case

 

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T. S. Eliot : unknown

Friday 14 February 1931: 'Janet Case yesterday [...] I suppose over 70 now [...] She clings to youth. "But we never see any young people" & so reads Tom Eliot &c'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Janet Case      Print: Book

  

Thomas Hardy : poems

Thursday 7 January 1915: 'We [Virginia Woolf and Janet Case] talked about [...] life in London & Hardy's poems which she can't re-read -- Too melancholy & sordid -- & the subjects not interesting enough'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Janet Case      Print: Book

  

Miguel de Cervantes : Don Quixote

Tuesday 10 September 1918: 'My intellectual snobbishness was chastened this morning by hearing from Janet [Case] that she reads Don Quixote & Paradise Lost, & her sister Lucretius in the evenings.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Janet Case      Print: Book

  

John Milton : Paradise Lost

Tuesday 10 September 1918: 'My intellectual snobbishness was chastened this morning by hearing from Janet [Case] that she reads Don Quixote & Paradise Lost, & her sister Lucretius in the evenings.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Janet Case      Print: Book

 

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