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Grace Macaulay

 

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Maria Edgeworth : 'The Purple Jar' in Every Child's Stories

'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and make-believe. "read much aloud to the children", Grace Macaulay records in her diary of 19 November 1887... "(all 5 listening in rapt atention), 'Rosamond and the Purple Jar', Leila or the Island and 'The Wave and the Battlefield' - also 'Holiday House'."'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Grace Macaulay      Print: Book

  

Ann Fraser Tytler : Leila: or, The Island

'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and make-believe. "read much aloud to the children", Grace Macaulay records in her diary of 19 November 1887... "(all 5 listening in rapt atention), 'Rosamond and the Purple Jar', 'Leila or the Island' and 'The Wave and the Battlefield' - also 'Holiday House'."'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Grace Macaulay      Print: Book

  

Catherine Sinclair : Holiday House

'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and make-believe. "read much aloud to the children", Grace Macaulay records in her diary of 19 November 1887... "(all 5 listening in rapt atention), 'Rosamond and the Purple Jar', 'Leila or the Island' and 'The Wave and the Battlefield' - also 'Holiday House'."'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Grace Macaulay      Print: Book

  

 : The Wave and the Battlefield

'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and make-believe. "read much aloud to the children", Grace Macaulay records in her diary of 19 November 1887... "(all 5 listening in rapt atention), 'Rosamond and the Purple Jar', 'Leila or the Island' and 'The Wave and the Battlefield' - also 'Holiday House'."'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Grace Macaulay      Print: Book

  

William Shakespeare : Henry V

'Later in the month (30 November), Grace writes that she is "reading Henry V to M. and R. [Margaret and Rose] in the evenings".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Grace Macaulay      Print: Book

  

Mary Louisa Molesworth : The Cuckoo Clock

'In September and October [Grace Macaulay] is reading aloud to Margaret (ill with scarlet fever) Mrs Molesworth's The Cuckoo Clock and Charlotte M. Yonge's Chaplet of Pearls and The Heir of Redclyffe'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Grace Macaulay      Print: Book

  

Charlotte M. Yonge : The Chaplet of Pearls

'In September and October [Grace Macaulay] is reading aloud to Margaret (ill with scarlet fever) Mrs Molesworth's The Cuckoo Clock and Charlotte M. Yonge's Chaplet of Pearls and The Heir of Redclyffe'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Grace Macaulay      Print: Book

  

Charlotte M. Yonge : The Heir of Redclyffe

'In September and October [Grace Macaulay] is reading aloud to Margaret (ill with scarlet fever) Mrs Molesworth's The Cuckoo Clock and Charlotte M. Yonge's Chaplet of Pearls and The Heir of Redclyffe'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Grace Macaulay      Print: Book

  

Frederick Marryat : The Settlers in Canada

'[Grace Macaulay's diary] entry for 2 March 1890 records that she "read the boys parts of Settlers at Home and Otto Spectere (sic), all of which Will as well as Aulay much enjoyed".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Grace Macaulay      Print: Book

  

Wilhelm Hey : Funfzig Fabeln or Noch Funfzig Fabeln

'[Grace Macaulay's diary] entry for 2 March 1890 records that she "read the boys parts of Settlers at Home and Otto Spectere (sic), all of which Will as well as Aulay much enjoyed".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Grace Macaulay      Print: Book

  

George Eliot : The Mill on the Floss

'On 12 May [1890 Grace Macaulay] recalls that she "read part of Mill on Floss to children in aft, to their delight".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Grace Macaulay      Print: Book

 

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