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Roger Fry

 

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Marcel Proust : Du Cote de chez Swann

18 April 1918: 'I went to Guildford. I don't see how to put 3 or 4 hours of Roger's conversation into the rest of this page [...] it was about all manner of things [...] Occasionally he read a quotation from a book by Proust (whose name I've forgotten), & then from his translation [of the Lysistrata]'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Roger Fry      Print: Book

  

Aristophanes  : Lysistrata

18 April 1918: 'I went to Guildford. I don't see how to put 3 or 4 hours of Roger's conversation into the rest of this page [...] it was about all manner of things [...] Occasionally he read a quotation from a book by Proust (whose name I've forgotten), & then from his translation [of the Lysistrata]'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Roger Fry      Manuscript: Unknown

  

Roger Fry : autobiographical essay

6 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly interesting occasion. Seven people read -- & Lord knows what I didnt read into their reading. Sydney [Waterlow] [...] signified as much by reading us a dream [...] altogether a queer, self-conscious, self analytic performance [...] Clive purely objective; Nessa starting matter of fact: then overcome by the emotional depths to be traversed; & unable to read aloud what she had written. Duncan fantastic & tongue -- not tied -- tongue enchanted. Molly literary about tendencies & William Morris, carefully composed at first, & even formal: suddenly saying "Oh this is absurd -- I can't go on" shuffling all her sheets; beginning on the wrong page; firmly but waveringly, & carrying through to the end [...] Roger well composed; story of a coachman who stole geraniums & went to prison.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Roger Fry      Manuscript: Unknown

  

Julien Benda : unknown

18 December 1921: 'Roger's visit [on 17 December] went off specially well [...] Roger had Benda in his pocket & read a passage aloud'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Roger Fry      Print: Book

  

unknown : 'French poetry'

Thursday 6 July 1933: 'Dinner at Roger's yesterday [...] Roger reading French poetry to Mrs Q[uennell]. & Gloria [Georgia].'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Roger Fry      Print: Book

  

E. M. Forster : Maurice

E. M. Forster to Edward Joseph Dent, 6 March 1915: 'You can scarcely imagine the loneliness of such an effort as this [Forster's novel of homosexual love, Maurice] -- a year's work! [...] Carpenter has read and liked it, but he's too unliterary to be helpful [...] Roger Fry & Sydney [Waterlow] have also read the book, and their opinions, being totally unbiased, are interesting. R. agrees with you that it is beautiful and the best work I have done. S. finds it moving, and persuasive to all but bigots, admirable as a sociological tract, full of good things, but he finds the characters weighed down by these'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Roger Fry      Manuscript: Unknown

 

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