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Zoe Procter
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[unknown] : [unknown]
'During the daytime I could not gain sufficient solitude for reading my little story books and was obliged to use the only secure retreat - the long, narrow, WC. In much later years, when my family was "too much with me", I was again driven to use this apartment in order to polish verses'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter Print: Book
Thomas Carlyle : Past and Present
'I heard about the great Abbot Sampson, of the twelfth century, whom I was to meet again at the age of fourteen, when I read "Past and Present" while waiting in Westminster Abbey to hear Canon Farrar preach.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter Print: Book
Alfred, Lord Tennyson : [poetry]
'It was strange that, as a girl of fifteen, my greatest friend should have been this Colonel Berkeley. The thirty years difference in our ages did not seem to matter. He was fond of reading and we read poetry together, a great deal of Tennyson, and although I had read George Eliot's novels, I was surprised that she who produced the dry prose of "Daniel Deronda", should also have produced "The Spanish Gipsy".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter Print: Book
George Eliot : The Spanish Gipsy
'It was strange that, as a girl of fifteen, my greatest friend should have been this Colonel Berkeley. The thirty years difference in our ages did not seem to matter. He was fond of reading and we read poetry together, a great deal of Tennyson, and although I had read George Eliot's novels, I was surprised that she who produced the dry prose of "Daniel Deronda", should also have produced "The Spanish Gipsy".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter Print: Book
George Eliot : Daniel Deronda
'It was strange that, as a girl of fifteen, my greatest friend should have been this Colonel Berkeley. The thirty years difference in our ages did not seem to matter. He was fond of reading and we read poetry together, a great deal of Tennyson, and although I had read George Eliot's novels, I was surprised that she who produced the dry prose of "Daniel Deronda", should also have produced "The Spanish Gipsy".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter Print: Book
Thomas Moore : Lalla Rookh
'We rowed past these [floating islands of the Dal Lake] on our way to the Shalimar Gardens, already so well known to me from reading "Lalla Rookh".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter Print: Book
Aristotle : Ethics
'Early in 1888 my grandmother was taken ill, and my sister Mary and I went daily to Albert Hall Mansions to help my eldest sister and do errands for her. I spent many hours sitting on the floor by one of the rosewood vaneer book cases, which I still possess, reading a varied assortment of works ranging from the Ehtics of Aristotle, through all the nineteenth century poets, down to the poems of Bulwer Lytton, written under the name of Owen Meredith.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter Print: Book
[unknown] : [nineteenth-century poets]
'Early in 1888 my grandmother was taken ill, and my sister Mary and I went daily to Albert Hall Mansions to help my eldest sister and do errands for her. I spent many hours sitting on the floor by one of the rosewood vaneer book cases, which I still possess, reading a varied assortment of works ranging from the Ehtics of Aristotle, through all the nineteenth century poets, down to the poems of Bulwer Lytton, written under the name of Owen Meredith.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter Print: Book
Edward Bulwer Lytton : [poetry]
'Early in 1888 my grandmother was taken ill, and my sister Mary and I went daily to Albert Hall Mansions to help my eldest sister and do errands for her. I spent many hours sitting on the floor by one of the rosewood vaneer book cases, which I still possess, reading a varied assortment of works ranging from the Ehtics of Aristotle, through all the nineteenth century poets, down to the poems of Bulwer Lytton, written under the name of Owen Meredith.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter Print: Book
George Meredith : [novels]
'Another pilgrimage Mrs Cragie made was to see George Meredith at his house on Box Hill. To visit Meredith was a great privilege and I waited eagerly for her description of the hour she spent with him. I was disappointed when she was able to tell me very little about the conversation. I had read all his novels and devoured the poems with great enthusiasm'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter Print: Book
George Meredith : [poetry]
'Another pilgrimage Mrs Cragie made was to see George Meredith at his house on Box Hill. To visit Meredith was a great privilege and I waited eagerly for her description of the hour she spent with him. I was disappointed when she was able to tell me very little about the conversation. I had read all his novels and devoured the poems with great enthusiasm'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter Print: Book
[n/a] : The Times
'I kept my hours conscientiously, but when I had no work to do I read continuously. I read parts of "The Times", the "Standard" and the "Morning Post" ever day. The theatrical and policitcal news interested me more than anything else. The study was lined with book shelves, and besides all the classical writers there was a large section filled with the works of French dramatists. I read several plays by Marivaux, and found, to my astonishment, that a serial I had read in the "Girls' Own Paper" had its origin in one of his plays. Encouraged by this, I wrote a play which also derived from a play by Marivaux.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter Print: Newspaper
[n/a] : Standard
'I kept my hours conscientiously, but when I had no work to do I read continuously. I read parts of "The Times", the "Standard" and the "Morning Post" ever day. The theatrical and policitcal news interested me more than anything else. The study was lined with book shelves, and besides all the classical writers there was a large section filled with the works of French dramatists. I read several plays by Marivaux, and found, to my astonishment, that a serial I had read in the "Girls' Own Paper" had its origin in one of his plays. Encouraged by this, I wrote a play which also derived from a play by Marivaux.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter Print: Newspaper
[n/a] : Morning Post
'I kept my hours conscientiously, but when I had no work to do I read continuously. I read parts of "The Times", the "Standard" and the "Morning Post" ever day. The theatrical and policitcal news interested me more than anything else. The study was lined with book shelves, and besides all the classical writers there was a large section filled with the works of French dramatists. I read several plays by Marivaux, and found, to my astonishment, that a serial I had read in the "Girls' Own Paper" had its origin in one of his plays. Encouraged by this, I wrote a play which also derived from a play by Marivaux.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter Print: Newspaper
Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux : [plays]
'I kept my hours conscientiously, but when I had no work to do I read continuously. I read parts of "The Times", the "Standard" and the "Morning Post" ever day. The theatrical and policitcal news interested me more than anything else. The study was lined with book shelves, and besides all the classical writers there was a large section filled with the works of French dramatists. I read several plays by Marivaux, and found, to my astonishment, that a serial I had read in the "Girls' Own Paper" had its origin in one of his plays. Encouraged by this, I wrote a play which also derived from a play by Marivaux.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter Print: Book
[unknown] : Girls' Own Paper
'I kept my hours conscientiously, but when I had no work to do I read continuously. I read parts of "The Times", the "Standard" and the "Morning Post" ever day. The theatrical and policitcal news interested me more than anything else. The study was lined with book shelves, and besides all the classical writers there was a large section filled with the works of French dramatists. I read several plays by Marivaux, and found, to my astonishment, that a serial I had read in the "Girls' Own Paper" had its origin in one of his plays. Encouraged by this, I wrote a play which also derived from a play by Marivaux.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter Print: Serial / periodical
Honoré de Balzac : [unknown]
'Pearl's conversation was always full of references to the works of the French novelists of the period, so I proceeded to read books by Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, Anatole France and Colette. I had to read the Italian poets in translation. All this was a great joy to me, and, as I have said, a wonderful education.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter Print: Book
Stendhal : [unknown]
'Pearl's conversation was always full of references to the works of the French novelists of the period, so I proceeded to read books by Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, Anatole France and Colette. I had to read the Italian poets in translation. All this was a great joy to me, and, as I have said, a wonderful education.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter Print: Book
Gustave Flaubert : [unknown]
'Pearl's conversation was always full of references to the works of the French novelists of the period, so I proceeded to read books by Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, Anatole France and Colette. I had to read the Italian poets in translation. All this was a great joy to me, and, as I have said, a wonderful education.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter Print: Book
Anatole France : [unknown]
'Pearl's conversation was always full of references to the works of the French novelists of the period, so I proceeded to read books by Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, Anatole France and Colette. I had to read the Italian poets in translation. All this was a great joy to me, and, as I have said, a wonderful education.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter Print: Book
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette : [unknown]
'Pearl's conversation was always full of references to the works of the French novelists of the period, so I proceeded to read books by Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, Anatole France and Colette. I had to read the Italian poets in translation. All this was a great joy to me, and, as I have said, a wonderful education.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter Print: Book
[Italian poets] : [poetry]
'Pearl's conversation was always full of references to the works of the French novelists of the period, so I proceeded to read books by Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, Anatole France and Colette. I had to read the Italian poets in translation. All this was a great joy to me, and, as I have said, a wonderful education.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter Print: Book
[n/a] : [newspapers]
'In the newspapers, which my sister sent out to me, I had read about the growing movement for women's suffrage.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter Print: Newspaper
[n/a] : Church Times
'Not knowing that I had reached the end of my travels for that day, I seated myself on the one chair and proceeded to read the "Church Times" which I had brought as reading matter. At about midnight my cell door was flung open and I was told to pass "out".'
