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Howard Spring
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Howard Spring : Fame is the Spur
'Read and read "Fame is the Spur" which is gorgeous.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book
Howard Spring : Fame is the Spur
'I like anything good....something like "The Stars Looked Down" or "Gone with the Wind"...."Fame is the Spur" is a lovely book.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book
Howard Spring : Fame is the Spur
'"I don't read much - oh, a very mixed lot - "My Son Absalom" and "Fame is the Spur"' [then in response to question from interviewer] '- who, them? I enjoy travel books, that one there was so famous .!.. "Something in Tartary", extremely nice". (Fleming).'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book
Howard Spring : review of Virginia Woolf, The Years
Friday 19 March 1937: '"They" say almost universally that The Years is a masterpiece [...] The praise chorus began yesterday: by the way I was walking in Covent Garden & found St Pauls, CG for the first time [...] then went to Burnets [of Garrick St.] [...] bought the E. Standard & found myself glorified as I read it in the Tube.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Newspaper
Howard Spring : Article in "St Martin's Review"
'But the real clue had been given by Howard Spring in an unpretentious article which appeared in "St. Martin's Review", the monthly magazine of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, for September 1942.'