Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Reader: Gwen Raverat

 

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Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'it was many, many years before any of us was able to look with unprejudiced eyes at anything Scotch again. Always exc...Gwen Raverat Walter Scott[novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'There were some problems which I never solved in all my youth. For instance, there was Gloucester's Natural Son in Ki...Gwen Raverat William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945
'David Copperfield was puzzling, too. He was a 'posthumous child' and was born with a 'caul'. The French dictionary, t...Gwen Raverat Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945
'David Copperfield was puzzling, too. He was a 'posthumous child' and was born with a 'caul'. The French dictionary, t...Gwen Raverat William Makepeace ThackerayHenry EsmondPrint: Book
1900-1945'Every time I re-read "Emma" I see more clearly that we must be somehow related to the Knightleys of Donwell Abbey; bo...Gwen Raverat Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945
'It was here, at No. 31, that I discovered Bewick, one afternoon while Aunt Etty was having her rest. I remember lying...Gwen Raverat Thomas BewickPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945
'One would be called upon to read aloud, say, Wordsworth's "Excursion" with her - Wordsworth was her religion - but on...Gwen Raverat William WordsworthExcursion, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have only now realised that the reason Blind Pew in "Treasure Island" frightened me so extremely was that I gave hi...Gwen Raverat Robert Louis StevensonTreasure IslandPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945
'I could read "The Daisy Chain" or "The Wide Wide World", and just take the religion as the queer habits of those sort...Gwen Raverat Charlotte Mary YongeThe Daisy ChainPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945
'I could read "The Daisy Chain" or "The Wide Wide World", and just take the religion as the queer habits of those sort...Gwen Raverat Susan WarnerThe Wide Wide WorldPrint: Book
1900-1945'I learnt with interest all about David and read Browning's "Saul" with "an intelligent scripture mistess".'Gwen Raverat Robert BrowningSaulPrint: Book
1900-1945'I learnt with interest all about David and read Browning's "Saul" with "an intelligent scripture mistess".'Gwen Raverat Bible, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Gwen Raverat, 11 March 1925: 'I don't think you would believe how it moves me that you and Jacque...Gwen Raverat Virginia WoolfMrs DallowayPrint: Unknown, In proof copy

 

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