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Katherine Mansfield
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'On Friday afternoon I went to Mudie's. What a fascinating place it is!! I had some peeps into most lovely books, & the bindings were exquisite'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
Louis Vintras : The Silver Net
'Do you know I have read none of the books that you mentioned. Is not that shocking - but - Sylvia - you know that little "Harold Brown" shop in Wimpole Shop [for street] - I picked up a small collection of poems entitled "The Silver Net" by Louis Vintras - and I liked some of them immensely. The atmosphere is so intense' [intense underlined]
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
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'I have been reading - French & English writing and lately have seen a great many Balls - and loved them - and dinners and receptions.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
E.F. Benson : Sheaves
'While I am on the subject of eating - for I am convinced E.F.Benson wrote the book on an empty, healthy tummy, do please read "Sheaves" - It is delightful and also, it is, in parts, Simpson Hayward incarnate.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
Stendhal :
'I have adopted Stendhal. Every night I read him now & first thing in the morning.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
Stendhal :
'I have adopted Stendhal. Every night I read him now & first thing in the morning.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
William Shakespeare : Venus and Adonis
'Then I woke up, switched on the light, & began to read Venus & Adonis. It's pretty stuff - rather like the Death of Procris'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
John Middleton Murry : The Loneliness of Leon Bloy
'I got up at that moment to re-read your article on Leon Bloy. The memory of it suddenly rose in my mind, like a scent'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Newspaper
John Middleton Murry : The Loneliness of Leon Bloy
'I got up at that moment to re-read your article on Leon Bloy. The memory of it suddenly rose in my mind, like a scent'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Newspaper
Charles Dickens :
'I don't dare to work any more tonight. That is why I asked for another Dickens; if I read him in bed he diverts my mind.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
Virginia Woolf : Night and Day
'There is a trifling scene in Virginia's book where a charming young creature in a bright fantastic attitude plays the flute: it positively frightens me - to realise this utter coldness and indifference'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
Jane Austen : Northanger Abbey
'The novel can't just leave the war out [...] What has been - stands - but Jane Austen could not write Northanger Abbey now - or if she did I'd have none of her'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
: Bible
'Since I came here I have been very interested in the Bible. I have read the Bible for hours on end.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
Henry James : Confidence
'I bought a book by Henry James yesterday and read it, as they say, "until far into the night". It was not very interesting or very good, but I can wade through pages and pages of dull, turgid James for the sake of that sudden sweet shock, that violent throb of delight that he gives me at times. I don't doubt this is genius: only there is an extraordinary amount of pan and an amazingly raffine' flash - '
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
Nietzsche :
'I read the lonely Nietzsche: but I felt a bit ashamed of my feelings for this man in the past. He is, if you like, "human, all too human." Read until late. I felt wretched simply beyond words. Life was like sawdust and sand.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
unknown : unknown
'I have read and sewed to-day, but not written a word'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
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'Read in the evening and later read with J. a good deal of poetry'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
: [poetry]
'Read in the evening and later read with J. a good deal of poetry'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
Colette : L'Entrave
'It's very quiet. I've re-read L'Entrave. I suppose Colette is the only woman in France who does just this. I don't care a fig at present for anyone I know except her.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
Colette : L'Entrave
'It's very quiet. I've re-read L'Entrave. I suppose Colette is the only woman in France who does just this. I don't care a fig at present for anyone I know except her.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
William Temple : Miscellanea
' "When all is done human life is at its greatest and best but a little froward [sic] child to be played with, and humoured a little, to keep it quiet until it falls asleep, and then the care is over" (Temple) That's the sort of strain - not for what it says and means, but for the "lilt" of it - that sets me writing.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
Dorothy Wordsworth : Journal
' "A CALM IRRESISTIBLE WELL-BEING - ALMOST mystic in character, and yet doubtless connected with physical conditions" writes Dorothy'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
Jane Austen : Sense and Sensibility
' "They were neither of them quite enough in love to imagine that ?350 a year would supply them with all the comforts of life" (Jane Austen's "Elinor and Edward"). My God! say I'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
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'Calm day. In garden read early poems in Oxford Book. Discussed our future library. In the evening read Dostoevsky'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
Dostoevsky :
'Calm day. In garden read early poems in Oxford Book. Discussed our future library. In the evening read Dostoevsky'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
Octave Mirbeau :
'I have read - given way to reading - two books by Octave Mirbeau - and after them I see dreadfully and finally, (1) that the French are a filthy people, (2) that their corruption is so puante [stinking] - I'll never go near 'em again.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
Octave Mirbeau :
'I have read - given way to reading - two books by Octave Mirbeau - and after them I see dreadfully and finally, (1) that the French are a filthy people, (2) that their corruption is so puante [stinking] - I'll never go near 'em again.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
Lloyd George :
'My sticks of rhubarb were wrapped up in a copy of the "Star" containing Lloyd George's last, more than eloquent speech. As I snipped up the rhubarb my eye fell, was fixed and fastened on, that sentence wherein he tells us that we have grasped our niblick and struck out for the open course.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Newspaper
E.M. Forster : Howard's End
'Putting my weakest books to the wall last night I came across a copy of "Howard's End" and had a look into it. But it's not good enough. E.M.Forster never gets any further than warming the teapot. He's a rare fine hand at that. Feel this teapot. Is it not beautifully warm? Yes, but there ain't going to be no tea.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
Anton Chekhov : Geneva
'Tchehov [Chekhov] makes me feel that this longing to write stories of such uneven length is quite justified. Geneva is a long story, and Hamilton is very short [...] Tchehov is quite right about women; yes, he is quite right.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
Anton Chekhov : Hamilton
'Tchehov [Chekhov] makes me feel that this longing to write stories of such uneven length is quite justified. Geneva is a long story, and Hamilton is very short [...] Tchehov is quite right about women; yes, he is quite right.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
Dostoevsky : The Idiot
Journal entry of March 1916 entitled "Notes on Dostoevsky" gives 2 pages of notes on "The Idiot" and "The Possessed".
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
Dostoevsky : The Possessed
Journal entry of March 1916 entitled "Notes on Dostoevsky" gives 2 pages of notes on "The Idiot" and "The Possessed".
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
Charles Dickens :
'Jinne Moore was awfully good at elocution. Was she better than I? I could make the girls cry when I read Dickens in the sewing class, and she couldn't.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
William Shakespeare : unknown
'January 18. No letters: strike still on. A fine day. But what is that to me? I am an invalid. I spend my life in bed. Read Shakespeare in the morning. I feel I cannot bear this silence to-day. I am haunted by thoughts.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
John Keats : Letters
'January 14. "To be happy with you seems such an impossibility! It requres a luckier star than mine! It will never be...The world is too brutal for me." [Keats to Fanny Brawne, August 1820]'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
William Shakespeare : All's Well that Ends Well
'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a thousand pages about Hamlet...Miranda and Juliet: To say that Juliet and Miranda might very well be one seems to me to show a lamentable want of perception... Romeo and Juliet ...When the old nurse cackles of leaning against the dove-house wall it's just as though a beam of sunlight struck through the curtains and discovered her sitting there in the warmth with a tiny staggerer...Twelfth Night...Oh, doesn't that reveal the thoughts of all those strange creatures who attend upon the lives of others! Antony and Cleopatra...Marvellous words!...A creature like Cleopatra always expects to be paid for things.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
William Shakespeare : Hamlet
'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a thousand pages about Hamlet...Miranda and Juliet: To say that Juliet and Miranda might very well be one seems to me to show a lamentable want of perception... Romeo and Juliet ...When the old nurse cackles of leaning against the dove-house wall it's just as though a beam of sunlight struck through the curtains and discovered her sitting there in the warmth with a tiny staggerer...Twelfth Night...Oh, doesn't that reveal the thoughts of all those strange creatures who attend upon the lives of others! Antony and Cleopatra...Marvellous words!...A creature like Cleopatra always expects to be paid for things.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
William Shakespeare : The Tempest
'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a thousand pages about Hamlet...Miranda and Juliet: To say that Juliet and Miranda might very well be one seems to me to show a lamentable want of perception... Romeo and Juliet ...When the old nurse cackles of leaning against the dove-house wall it's just as though a beam of sunlight struck through the curtains and discovered her sitting there in the warmth with a tiny staggerer...Twelfth Night...Oh, doesn't that reveal the thoughts of all those strange creatures who attend upon the lives of others! Antony and Cleopatra...Marvellous words!...A creature like Cleopatra always expects to be paid for things.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
William Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet
'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a thousand pages about Hamlet...Miranda and Juliet: To say that Juliet and Miranda might very well be one seems to me to show a lamentable want of perception... Romeo and Juliet ...When the old nurse cackles of leaning against the dove-house wall it's just as though a beam of sunlight struck through the curtains and discovered her sitting there in the warmth with a tiny staggerer...Twelfth Night...Oh, doesn't that reveal the thoughts of all those strange creatures who attend upon the lives of others! Antony and Cleopatra...Marvellous words!...A creature like Cleopatra always expects to be paid for things.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
William Shakespeare : Twelfth Night
'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a thousand pages about Hamlet...Miranda and Juliet: To say that Juliet and Miranda might very well be one seems to me to show a lamentable want of perception... Romeo and Juliet ...When the old nurse cackles of leaning against the dove-house wall it's just as though a beam of sunlight struck through the curtains and discovered her sitting there in the warmth with a tiny staggerer...Twelfth Night...Oh, doesn't that reveal the thoughts of all those strange creatures who attend upon the lives of others! Antony and Cleopatra...Marvellous words!...A creature like Cleopatra always expects to be paid for things.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
William Shakespeare : Antony and Cleopatra
'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a thousand pages about Hamlet...Miranda and Juliet: To say that Juliet and Miranda might very well be one seems to me to show a lamentable want of perception... Romeo and Juliet ...When the old nurse cackles of leaning against the dove-house wall it's just as though a beam of sunlight struck through the curtains and discovered her sitting there in the warmth with a tiny staggerer...Twelfth Night...Oh, doesn't that reveal the thoughts of all those strange creatures who attend upon the lives of others! Antony and Cleopatra...Marvellous words!...A creature like Cleopatra always expects to be paid for things.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
W.J.D. : Poems
'January 1. Read W.J.D.'s poems. I feel very near to him in mind.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
Jane Austen : Mansfield Park
'January 2...What I chiefly admire in Jane Austen is that what she promises, she performs, i.e. if Sir T. is to arrive, we have his arrival at length, and it's excellent and exceeds our expectations. This is rare; it is also my very weakest point. Easy to see why...'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
William Shakespeare : The Tempest
'January 3...I read "The Tempest". The papers came. I over-read them. Tell the truth. I did no work. In fact I was more idle and hateful than ever..."The Tempest" seems to me astonishing this time. When one reads the same play again, it is never the same play.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
: [newspapers]
'January 3...I read "The Tempest". The papers came. I over-read them. Tell the truth. I did no work. In fact I was more idle and hateful than ever..."The Tempest" seems to me astonishing this tiem. When one reads the same play again, it is never the same play.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
unknown : Cosmic Anatomy
'January 4...I have read a good deal of "Cosmic Anatomy" and understood it far better. Yes, such a book does fascinate me. Why does J. [Middleton Murry] hate it so? To get a glimpse of the relation of things - to follow that relation and find it remains true through the ages enlarges my little mind as nothing else does. It's only a greater view of psychology....Read Shakespeare.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
William Shakespeare : unknown
'January 4...I have read a good deal of "Cosmic Anatomy" and understood it far better. Yes, such a book does fascinate me. Why does J. [Middleton Murry] hate it so? To get a glimpse of the relation of things - to follow that relation and find it remains true through the ages enlarges my little mind as nothing else does. It's only a greater view of psychology....Read Shakespeare.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
unknown : Cosmic Anatomy
'January 5... Read "Cosmic Anatomy". I managed to work a little.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
Jane Austen : Mansfield Park
'January 5... J. and I read "Mansfield Park" with great enjoyment. I wonder if J. [Middleton Murry] is as content as he appears? It seems too good to be true.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
William Shakespeare : unknown
'January 6... Read Shakespeare, read "Cosmic Anatomy", read The Oxford Dictionary.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
unknown : Cosmic Anatomy
'January 6... Read Shakespeare, read "Cosmic Anatomy", read The Oxford Dictionary.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
various : The Oxford English Dictionary
'January 6... Read Shakespeare, read "Cosmic Anatomy", read The Oxford Dictionary.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
unknown : Cosmic Anatomy
'January 7... I read "Cosmic Anatomy", Shakespeare and the Bible. Jonah.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
William Shakespeare : unknown
'January 7... I read "Cosmic Anatomy", Shakespeare and the Bible. Jonah.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
: The story of Jonah and the Whale
'January 7... I read "Cosmic Anatomy", Shakespeare and the Bible. Jonah.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
William Shakespeare : unknown
'February 5. Wrote at my story, read Shakespeare, Read Goethe, thought, prayed.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield Print: Book
James Joyce : Ulysses
Wednesday 15 January 1941: 'Joyce is dead -- Joyce about a fortnight younger than I am. I remember Miss Weaver, in wool gloves, bringing Ulysses in type script to our tea table at Hogarth House [...] Would we devote our lives to printing it [at Hogarth Press]? [...] the pages reeled with indecency. I put it in the drawer of the inlaid cabinet. One day Katherine Mansfield came, & I had it out. She began to read, ridiculing: then suddenly said, But theres something in this: a scene that should figure I suppose in the history of literature.'
