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Alice Thompson

 

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Walter Scott : novels

June Badeni on readings by 13-year-old Alice Thompson, as recorded in her notebook: 'She has been reading more of Scott and Dickens, is plunging through the novels of George Eliot... has sampled Bulwer Lytton, Thackeray, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alice Thompson      Print: Book

  

Charles Dickens : novels

June Badeni on readings by 13-year-old Alice Thompson, as recorded in her notebook: 'She has been reading more of Scott and Dickens, is plunging through the novels of George Eliot... has sampled Bulwer Lytton, Thackeray, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alice Thompson      Print: Book

  

George Eliot : novels

June Badeni on readings by 13-year-old Alice Thompson, as recorded in her notebook: 'She has been reading more of Scott and Dickens, is plunging through the novels of George Eliot... has sampled Bulwer Lytton, Thackeray, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alice Thompson      Print: Book

  

Edward Bulwer Lytton : novels

June Badeni on readings by 13-year-old Alice Thompson, as recorded in her notebook: 'She has been reading more of Scott and Dickens, is plunging through the novels of George Eliot... has sampled Bulwer Lytton, Thackeray, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alice Thompson      Print: Book

  

William Makepeace Thackeray : novels

June Badeni on readings by 13-year-old Alice Thompson, as recorded in her notebook: 'She has been reading more of Scott and Dickens, is plunging through the novels of George Eliot... has sampled Bulwer Lytton, Thackeray, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alice Thompson      Print: Book

  

Nathaniel Hawthorne : novels

June Badeni on readings by 13-year-old Alice Thompson, as recorded in her notebook: 'She has been reading more of Scott and Dickens, is plunging through the novels of George Eliot... has sampled Bulwer Lytton, Thackeray, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alice Thompson      Print: Book

  

unknown : Fatima

Noted by 17-year-old Alice Thompson in her diary: 'I have been reading Fatima and I don't quite think I know what love is.'

Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alice Thompson      

  

Aristotle : unknown

Aged 19, Alice Thompson '...engaged in ... earnest reading and note-taking ... from Lewis's Aristotle.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alice Thompson      Print: Book

  

William Wordsworth : unknown

Alice Meynell recalls childhood reading: 'In quite early childhood I lived upon Wordsworth ... When I was about twelve I fell in love with Tennyson, and cared for nothing else until, at fifteen, I discovered Keats and then Shelley.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alice Thompson      Print: Book

  

Alfred, Lord Tennyson : unknown

Alice Meynell recalls childhood reading: 'In quite early childhood I lived upon Wordsworth ... When I was about twelve I fell in love with Tennyson, and cared for nothing else until, at fifteen, I discovered Keats and then Shelley.'

Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alice Thompson      

  

John Keats : unknown

Alice Meynell recalls childhood reading: 'In quite early childhood I lived upon Wordsworth ... When I was about twelve I fell in love with Tennyson, and cared for nothing else until, at fifteen, I discovered Keats and then Shelley.'

Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alice Thompson      

  

Percy Bysshe Shelley : unknown

Alice Meynell recalls childhood reading: 'In quite early childhood I lived upon Wordsworth ... When I was about twelve I fell in love with Tennyson, and cared for nothing else until, at fifteen, I discovered Keats and then Shelley.'

Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alice Thompson      

 

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