the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

Click check box to select all entries on this page:

Charles Greville : Past and Present Policy of England Towards Island

'we have been much pleased with it… it is clear, well put together, skillfully developed, & the argument for a complete change of ecclesiastical policy comes out all but irresistibly. Perhaps he does not lay the stress he ought on Irish idiosyncracy, but still that does not touch the real question of our conduct to them'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth      Print: Book

Charles C. F. Greville : ?The Greville Memoirs

'His reading in 1938 and 1939 had been mainly of memoirs and biographies: Boswell, Greville, Logan Pearsall Smith's Unforgotten Years, Siegfried Sassoon's The Old Century, Somerset Maugham's The Summing-Up ('a very honest confession of faith').'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buchan      Print: Book

Click check box to select all entries on this page: