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H. M. Swanwick

 

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Geoffrey Chaucer : 

"H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, and puzzled over the Bible, Shakespeare, Chaucer, La Fontaine."

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: H. M. Swanwick      Print: Book

  

La Fontaine : 

"H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, and puzzled over the Bible, Shakespeare, Chaucer, La Fontaine."

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: H. M. Swanwick      Print: Book

  

Charles Dickens : David Copperfield

"Forbidden David Copperfield, Bleak House, The Heart of Midlothian, and The Vicar of Wakefield ... [H. M. Swanwick] read them none the less ... When she was lent Dante Gabriel Rosetti's poems by a friend, 'Jenny' ... came as a welcome antidote [to Dickens's and Scott's treatments of fallen women]."

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: H. M. Swanwick      Print: Unknown

  

Charles Dickens : Bleak House

"Forbidden David Copperfield, Bleak House, The Heart of Midlothian, and The Vicar of Wakefield ... [H. M. Swanwick] read them none the less ... When she was lent Dante Gabriel Rosetti's poems by a friend, 'Jenny' ... came as a welcome antidote [to Dickens's and Scott's treatments of fallen women]."

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: H. M. Swanwick      Print: Unknown

  

Walter Scott : The Heart of Midlothian

"Forbidden David Copperfield, Bleak House, The Heart of Midlothian, and The Vicar of Wakefield ... [H. M. Swanwick] read them none the less ... When she was lent Dante Gabriel Rosetti's poems by a friend, 'Jenny' ... came as a welcome antidote [to Dickens's and Scott's treatments of fallen women]."

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: H. M. Swanwick      Print: Book

  

Oliver Goldsmith : The Vicar of Wakefield

"Forbidden David Copperfield, Bleak House, The Heart of Midlothian, and The Vicar of Wakefield ... [H. M. Swanwick] read them none the less ... When she was lent Dante Gabriel Rosetti's poems by a friend, 'Jenny' ... came as a welcome antidote [to Dickens's and Scott's treatments of fallen women]."

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: H. M. Swanwick      Print: Book

  

Dante Gabriel Rossetti : poems including Jenny

"Forbidden David Copperfield, Bleak House, The Heart of Midlothian, and The Vicar of Wakefield ... [H. M. Swanwick] read them none the less ... When she was lent Dante Gabriel Rosetti's poems by a friend, 'Jenny' ... came as a welcome antidote [to Dickens's and Scott's treatments of fallen women]."

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: H. M. Swanwick      Print: Book

 

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