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Charlotte Mew
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: Line Upon Line
'Every day [...] [Charlotte Mew] had to read a fixed number of pages from "Line Upon Line", a book which re-tells the Bible stories [for children]'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Mew Print: Book
Charlotte Mew : 'The Changeling'
'Charlotte [Mew] used to read [...] [lines from her 1912 poem "The Changeling", in which a child speaker ponders reasons for its own existence] aloud [...] to children of her acquaintance, giving no explanation, because she believed [...] that none would be needed. They understood her at once.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Mew Print: Unknown
Richard Jeffries : Field and Hedgerow
'In 1889 [...] [Charlotte Mew] had been reading [Richard] Jeffries' "Field and Hedgerow", his last essays, a book published after his death [which supplied the epigram for Mew's story "The Minnow Fishers"].'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Mew Print: Book
Thomas Hardy :
'Charlotte [Mew] [...] was a passionate reader of Thomas Hardy'.
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Mew Print: Unknown
Alfred Noyes : "The Old Sceptic"
'In 1910, when Alfred Noyes's "Collected Poems" came out [...] [Charlotte Mew] read his "The Old Sceptic" and reflected that as far as sentiment went, she might have written the poem herself.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Mew Print: Book
Gustave Flaubert :
'[Around 1912-13, when she began her association with Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott] Charlotte [Mew] [...] was reading Flaubert as always, Chekhov, Conrad and Verlaine'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Mew Print: Book
Anton Chekhov :
'[Around 1912-13, when she began her association with Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott] Charlotte [Mew] [...] was reading Flaubert as always, Chekhov, Conrad and Verlaine'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Mew Print: Book
Joseph Conrad :
'[Around 1912-13, when she began her association with Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott] Charlotte [Mew] [...] was reading Flaubert as always, Chekhov, Conrad and Verlaine'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Mew Print: Unknown
Paul Verlaine :
'[Around 1912-13, when she began her association with Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott] Charlotte [Mew] [...] was reading Flaubert as always, Chekhov, Conrad and Verlaine'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Mew Print: Book
May Sinclair : The Combined Maze
Charlotte Mew 'felt stunned' by May Sinclair's novel "The Combined Maze" (published February 1913), telling Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott, '"it has completely got and kept hold of me"'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Mew Print: Book
Charlotte Mew : "The Farmer's Bride"
'In the early spring of 1913 Sappho [i.e. Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott, nicknamed after a poem she had authored] wrote in her diary: '"When Charlotte [Mew] came [to Mrs Dawson Scott's house] I persuaded her to read to us "The Farmer's Bride", and May [Sinclair] was so won over that she deserted me and they went away together."'
UnknownCentury: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Mew
Charlotte Mew : "Saturday Market"
Penelope Fitzgerald relates how, during Charlotte Mew's stay at his home in December 1918, Thomas Hardy 'read some of his own poems to her, and she read him something which pleased him very much, "Saturday Market".'
UnknownCentury: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Mew
Bronte : letters
'Over the New Year [1922] [...] [Charlotte Mew] went down to Cambridge and, as a particular treat, Sydney [Cockerell, Mew's friend, and Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum] showed her the Bronte letters in the Fitzwilliam, and let her hold one of them in her hand.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Mew Manuscript: Letter
Anita Loos : Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
'In the summer [of 1926] [...] [Charlotte Mew and her sister Caroline Frances Ann] were both reading [italics]Gentlemen Prefer Blondes[end italics]'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Mew Print: Book
David Garnett : Go She Must
While her terminally ill sister Anne was staying at a nursing home in Priory Road, West Hampstead, Charlotte Mew 'came every day with novels to read aloud and amuse them both, starting with David Garnett's [italics]Go She Must[end italics].'
