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J. Henry Shorthouse : John Inglesant
'One of the privately printed copies [of "John Inglesant" was] ... read by Mrs Humphry Ward and her advocacy persuaded Macmillan's to give it general release.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward
J. Henry Shorthouse : John Inglesant
'Writing her memoirs in 1926, Janet Courtney went back to what she was like at 15, "when "John Inglesant" was published, spending the long summer holidays in the quiet of Barton, and for those six summer weeks of 1881 I lived in the book ..."'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Janet Courtney Print: Book
J.H. Shorthouse : John Inglesant
'Monday 16th August ?John Inglesant? ? (J.H. Shorthouse). I finished Sybil and think it certainly is a fine book for our syllabus purposes.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book
J.H. Shorthouse : John Inglesant
'11th January, Tuesday. ?John Inglesant? ? (J. H. Shorthouse). I notice a report of a speech by Dr. Norwood in this morning?s Liverpool Post. I am amazed to note how he seems to take war in China for granted, as merely inevitable and spends his time appealing to the Powers ?not to gather in a spirit of spoliation?, after the conflict! Already! And this, from a leading Pacifist, and League of Nations speaker. How can it be thought surprising, that the ordinary people, spending too much time earning their bread and butter to allow of deep thought, should succumb easily to waves of jingoism, when the prophet and leaders themselves, the most steady of the press, the most earnest of clerics are already braying compromise, within ten years of the World War.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book
J.H. Shorthouse : John Inglesant
'13th January, Thursday. ?John Inglesant? ( J.H.Shorthouse). I am re-reading this, not only because it is one of the most wonderful books I have come across, but because the wonderful earnestness of it, and the vision of life it gives me, inspire me in my own small concerns. I wonder if I myself, am doing a measurable good in my activities?'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book
Joseph Henry Shorthouse : John Inglesant
'I often found peace in the pages of Ecclesiastes or Isaiah, or in the writings of men whom Barry has described as the heralds of revolt - John Inglesant, George Eliot, Carlyle, Heine, Loti, Nietzsche, etc. But in time even literature palls.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book
Shorthouse :
'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its "concentrated pathos." "Mrs Oliphant's prolific work," he would observe, "is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading."'
