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Frank Vicary
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Dickinson :
E. M. Forster to Florence Barger, 2 July 1916: 'I talk to patients [at Red Cross centre, Alexandria]; with one of them -- a sensitive and intelligent fellow -- I have become real friends [...] He is, incongruously enough, a Ship's Steward [...] He is absolutely independent, but not with the theoretical independence of the Socialist. He devours masses of Dickinson [...] and Shaw.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Frank Vicary Print: Unknown
George Bernard Shaw :
E. M. Forster to Florence Barger, 2 July 1916: 'I talk to patients [at Red Cross centre, Alexandria]; with one of them -- a sensitive and intelligent fellow -- I have become real friends [...] He is, incongruously enough, a Ship's Steward [...] He is absolutely independent, but not with the theoretical independence of the Socialist. He devours masses of Dickinson [...] and Shaw.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Frank Vicary Print: Book
Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson : The Meaning of Good
E. M. Forster to Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, 28 July 1916: 'I still like my work [as Red Cross worker tracing missing soldiers] and do the motherly to Tommies as you say, and I hope in one case the brotherly [...] I lent him books by you, and though he stuck in The Meaning of Good as "unlikely to help", John Chinaman he liked so much as to read part of it aloud to the rest of the ward. "They said What do you want to read that for? I said it's very interesting about the opium as showing what Europe's like. They said But what does it matter? Who cares?" [...] he grew up in respectable circles in the west of England'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Frank Vicary Print: Book
Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson : Letters from John Chinaman
E. M. Forster to Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, 28 July 1916: 'I still like my work [as Red Cross worker tracing missing soldiers] and do the motherly to Tommies as you say, and I hope in one case the brotherly [...] I lent him books by you, and though he stuck in The Meaning of Good as "unlikely to help", John Chinaman he liked so much as to read part of it aloud to the rest of the ward. "They said What do you want to read that for? I said it's very interesting about the opium as showing what Europe's like. They said But what does it matter? Who cares?" [...] he grew up in respectable circles in the west of England'.
