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Philip Ballard

 

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Charles Dickens : 

'[Philip Ballard] had no exposure to contemporary writers until the 1890s: "I gained a nodding acquaintance with the life and letters of Ancient Greece and Rome, and... I had read most of Dickens, much of Thackeray and some of Scott; but I had never read a line of Henry James, of Meredith or of Hardy".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Ballard      Print: Book

  

William Makepeace Thackeray : 

'[Philip Ballard] had no exposure to contemporary writers until the 1890s: "I gained a nodding acquaintance with the life and letters of Ancient Greece and Rome, and... I had read most of Dickens, much of Thackeray and some of Scott; but I had never read a line of Henry James, of Meredith or of Hardy".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Ballard      Print: Book

  

 : [lives and letters of Ancient Greece and Rome]

'[Philip Ballard] had no exposure to contemporary writers until the 1890s: "I gained a nodding acquaintance with the life and letters of Ancient Greece and Rome, and... I had read most of Dickens, much of Thackeray and some of Scott; but I had never read a line of Henry James, of Meredith or of Hardy".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Ballard      Print: Book

  

Walter Scott : 

'[Philip Ballard] had no exposure to contemporary writers until the 1890s: "I gained a nodding acquaintance with the life and letters of Ancient Greece and Rome, and... I had read most of Dickens, much of Thackeray and some of Scott; but I had never read a line of Henry James, of Meredith or of Hardy".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Ballard      Print: Book

  

Walter Pater : 

'In the Star [Philip] Ballard read the music criticism of Bernard Shaw, and Richard le Gallienne on books... He pressed on to Meredith and Walter Pater'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Ballard      Print: Book, Unknown

  

George Meredith : 

'In the Star [Philip] Ballard read the music criticism of Bernard Shaw, and Richard le Gallienne on books... He pressed on to Meredith and Walter Pater'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Ballard      Print: Book, Unknown

  

George Bernard Shaw : 

'In the Star [Philip] Ballard read the music criticism of Bernard Shaw, and Richard le Gallienne on books... He pressed on to Meredith and Walter Pater'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Ballard      Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown

  

Richard Le Gallienne : 

'In the Star [Philip] Ballard read the music criticism of Bernard Shaw, and Richard le Gallienne on books... He pressed on to Meredith and Walter Pater'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Ballard      Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown

 

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