'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
'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
'[Around 1912-13, when she began her association with Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott] Charlotte [Mew] [...] was reading Flaubert as always, Chekhov, Conrad and Verlaine'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Mew Print: Book
'February 12. J. [Middleton Murry] read the Tchehov [sic] aloud. I had read one of the stories myself and it seemed to me nothing. But read aloud it was a masterpiece. How was that?'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: J. Middleton Murry Print: Book
Saturday 27 March 1926: '[Gerald Gould] reads novels incessantly; got a holiday 3 years ago, & prided himself on reading nothing but Tchekhov'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Gould Print: Book
'Have you read Frank Harris?s privately published Life & Confessions of Oscar Wilde? It is a strange & powerful book, written by a man who is a curious mixture of impulses noble and ignoble. I am just finishing it. The best things I have read for ages are the Chekhov short stories in the new complete edition (2 vols out) published here by Chatto & Windus, translated by the eternal Constance Garnett. These stories are unmatched.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book
Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1929-30) include descriptions and reflections on vagrants from Chekhov's story 'Uprooted.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster Print: Book
. . . There have been 2 supreme books since your regretted departure. G. Moore’s 'Avowals' and the letters of Chekhov . . .
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book
'Thanks my dearest fellow for the Che[k]hov vol. He is too delightful for words. Very great work. Very great. Do tell your wife of my admiration that grows and grows with every page of her translations I read. The renderings in this vol have impressed me extremely.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Book
'Meeting held at Frensham. Saturday 11th July ’42
H. R. Smith in the chair
[...]
3. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed..
[...]
6. Two One Act Plays were then read. The first of these ‘The Proposal’ by Tchekov
was chosen no doubt in tribute to our gallant allies. Howard Smith as a Russian
landowner Muriel Stevens as his daughter and Arnold Joselin as a healthy, well-
nourished but hypochondriacal suitor for the daughters hand in marriage, all
displayed great histrionic ability. The author calls his play ‘A jest’ and it certainly
was very funny. Howard Smith’s part was largely “and so on’ alternating with ‘and
all the rest of it’ but the infinite variety of expression he managed to put into these
few rather simple words soon reduced us to a state of helpless laughter, and the
fervour of his prayer “Good Lord: what it is to have a grown up daughter” brought
down the house.
7. The second play was “The Workhouse Ward” by Lady Gregory and no doubt a
student of national character could draw many conclusions from the difference
between the Irish and the Russian sense of humour as revealed in these two plays.
Certainly this was altogether a quieter & more subtle work that The Proposal but it
was also very amusing & well read by F. E. Pollard & A. B. Dilks as the two
paupers and Rasamund Wllis as the Countrywoman relation.
[...]
[signed by] F. E. Pollard
17. IX. 42.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith Print: Book
'Meeting held at Frensham. Saturday 11th July ’42
H. R. Smith in the chair
[...]
3. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed..
[...]
6. Two One Act Plays were then read. The first of these ‘The Proposal’ by Tchekov
was chosen no doubt in tribute to our gallant allies. Howard Smith as a Russian
landowner Muriel Stevens as his daughter and Arnold Joselin as a healthy, well-
nourished but hypochondriacal suitor for the daughters hand in marriage, all
displayed great histrionic ability. The author calls his play ‘A jest’ and it certainly
was very funny. Howard Smith’s part was largely “and so on’ alternating with ‘and
all the rest of it’ but the infinite variety of expression he managed to put into these
few rather simple words soon reduced us to a state of helpless laughter, and the
fervour of his prayer “Good Lord: what it is to have a grown up daughter” brought
down the house.
7. The second play was “The Workhouse Ward” by Lady Gregory and no doubt a
student of national character could draw many conclusions from the difference
between the Irish and the Russian sense of humour as revealed in these two plays.
Certainly this was altogether a quieter & more subtle work that The Proposal but it
was also very amusing & well read by F. E. Pollard & A. B. Dilks as the two
paupers and Rasamund Wllis as the Countrywoman relation.
[...]
[signed by] F. E. Pollard
17. IX. 42.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Muriel Stevens Print: Book
'Meeting held at Frensham. Saturday 11th July ’42
H. R. Smith in the chair
[...]
3. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed..
[...]
6. Two One Act Plays were then read. The first of these ‘The Proposal’ by Tchekov
was chosen no doubt in tribute to our gallant allies. Howard Smith as a Russian
landowner Muriel Stevens as his daughter and Arnold Joselin as a healthy, well-
nourished but hypochondriacal suitor for the daughters hand in marriage, all
displayed great histrionic ability. The author calls his play ‘A jest’ and it certainly
was very funny. Howard Smith’s part was largely “and so on’ alternating with ‘and
all the rest of it’ but the infinite variety of expression he managed to put into these
few rather simple words soon reduced us to a state of helpless laughter, and the
fervour of his prayer “Good Lord: what it is to have a grown up daughter” brought
down the house.
7. The second play was “The Workhouse Ward” by Lady Gregory and no doubt a
student of national character could draw many conclusions from the difference
between the Irish and the Russian sense of humour as revealed in these two plays.
Certainly this was altogether a quieter & more subtle work that The Proposal but it
was also very amusing & well read by F. E. Pollard & A. B. Dilks as the two
paupers and Rasamund Wllis as the Countrywoman relation.
[...]
[signed by] F. E. Pollard
17. IX. 42.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Joselin Print: Book
‘Someone has lent me two of Tchekof’s [Chekhov]'s plays—"The Sea-gull"
and "The Cherry Orchard". The first I have read twice and am very struck
with it—for its truth and its well drawn characters. I must read the other
again before I decide, but it will probably not please me so much …
Hauptmann’s "Sunken Bell" is good, but not very good, I think … We are
expecting Zeps tonight as there is a rumour of four somewhere about. But
Chelmsford is a straggly place and probably not easy to spot.’
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ivor Bertie Gurney Print: Book
