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Listing for Reader:
Harold
Nicolson
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Century of Experience
Evidence
Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group
Author of Text
Title of Text
Form of Text
1900-1945
'He [a friend] took me to a bar which he said was quite respectable, but the proprietor showed me pornographic photogr...
Harold Nicolson
Virginia Woolf
Orlando
Unknown
1900-1945
'Do you now what we are doing? Harold is reading about Harmann, The Butcher of Hanover, - an unbelievably horrible bo...
Harold Nicolson
unknown
[work about Harmann, the Butcher of Hanover]
Print
: Unknown
1900-1945
'I read Celery through from cover to cover last night in bed. It really is good.'
Harold Nicolson
Vita Sackville-West
Heritage
Print
: Book
1900-1945
'I had a nice day yesterday lying out under the trees in a deck-chair reading Bertie Russell's "On Education". A good...
Harold Nicolson
Bertrand Russell
On Education
Print
: Book
1900-1945
'I went yesterday to Montreux and then changed and went in a funny funicular to a place called Gstaadt where we arrive...
Harold Nicolson
George Gordon, Lord Byron
unknown
Print
: Book
1900-1945
'(I read it through at a sitting - but that of course is not a good test...)
Harold Nicolson
Vita Sackville-West
Passenger to Teheran
Print
: Book
1900-1945
'Dearest - you don't know what "The Land" means to me! I read it incessantly - it has become a real wide undertone to...
Harold Nicolson
Vita Sackville-West
The Land
Unknown
1900-1945
'Feeling rather miz at the moment as I have been reading three days worth of the "Express" and "Evening Standard". Th...
Harold Nicolson
Express
Print
: Newspaper
1900-1945
'Read French and German newspapers. Wrote three paragraphs. Fiddled about.'
Harold Nicolson
[French and German newspapers]
Print
: Newspaper
1900-1945
'I read "Mansfield Park" [Jane Austen]. Proust applied to la petite noblesse de campagne. I also read Aristotle's Et...
Harold Nicolson
Jane Austen
Mansfield Park
Print
: Book
1900-1945
'In odd moments when I am at a loose end (about eleven minutes in the day) I read Emily Dickinson.'
Harold Nicolson
Emily Dickinson
poems
Print
: Book
1900-1945
'I think she thought I was French as I was reading the "Matin". But when I picked up Lamb which was obviously an Engl...
Harold Nicolson
Charles Lamb
unknown
Print
: Book
1900-1945
'I had time yesterday to read your poem. In fact I read it three times. Once in the train. Once after luncheon in t...
Harold Nicolson
Vita Sackville-West
Solitude
Unknown
1900-1945
'I read the Keats letters coming up in a belated and dawdling train. His letter to [Charles Armitage] Brown from Napl...
Harold Nicolson
John Keats
Letters
Print
: Book
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)