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Barry Pain

 

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Barry Pain : 

Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903: 'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It includes however Bernard Shaw, Schopenhauer, Barry Pain, Browning, D'Aurevilly, Oscar Wilde, Flaubert, A Manual of Ethics & Shakespeare [...] I don't see how anyone, after reading Madame Bovary, can doubt which is the supremest of all novels -- though I now remember writing the same to you about Le Pere Goriot.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

  

Mrs Barry Pain : 'A Lesson in Pearls'

'Mr & Mrs Unwin & Miss Bowman Smith gave a vivacious reading of a clever & witty sketch, "A Lesson in Pearls" by Mrs Barry Pain.'

Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest & Ursula Unwin & Muriel Bowman Smith     Print: Unknown

 

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