[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The Murders in Praed Street; Lover's Meeting; The Secret Battle; Witch Wood; MD - Doctor of Murder; Murder at the Keyhole; That Girl Ginger; Ten Minute Alibi; Diary of a District Officer; Tarzan the Untamed; Peter Abelard; Pip; Pied Piper; A Man Lay Dead; Random Harvest; Madame Curie; Stalky and Co; Bellarion; Down the Garden Path; The Three Musketeers vol 1; The House in Cornwall; A Tall Ship; The Two Saplings; Farewell Victoria; Quinneys; House of Terror; Penguin Parade 4; Guy Mannering[presumably a re-reading]; The Man Born to be King; Casterton Papers; Old Saint Paul's; The Moon is Down; 1066 and all That; My Brother Jonathon; Gulliver's Travels; Ensign Knightley; Men Against Death; Fame is the Spur; Gone with the Wind; Mesmer; First Nights; The Hound of the Baskervilles; Little Gidding; Beau Geste; Beau Sabreur; The Amazing Theatre; The Pleasure of Your Company; Dandelion Days; Humour and Fantasy; Juno and the Paycock; The Beautiful Years; Teach Yourself to Think; Salar the Salmon; The Cathedral; The Mysterious Mr I; The Picts and the Martyrs; The Dream of Fair Women; The Star-born; Three Short Stories; A Thatched Roof; The Surgeon's Log; The Healing Knife; Nine Ghosts; While Rome Burns; The Star Spangled Manner; The Day Must Dawn; The Tower of London; Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; The Old Man's Birthday; A little Princess; Ego 5; The Lighter Side of School Life; Kidnapped; The Trail of the Sandhill Stag; Ballet Lover's Notebook; Lorna Doone; The Plays of JM Barrie; Jane Eyre; I'll Leave it to You; Henry Fifth; Longer Poems; Antony and Cleopatra; The Man in Grey; The House in Dormer Forest; The Writing of English; Miss Mapp; The Song of Bernadette; Happy and Glorious; Sixty Poems; The Birth of Romance; The Comedy of Life; Some Little Tales; Dream Days; Royal Flush.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book
[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The Murders in Praed Street; Lover's Meeting; The Secret Battle; Witch Wood; MD - Doctor of Murder; Murder at the Keyhole; That Girl Ginger; Ten Minute Alibi; Diary of a District Officer; Tarzan the Untamed; Peter Abelard; Pip; Pied Piper; A Man Lay Dead; Random Harvest; Madame Curie; Stalky and Co; Bellarion; Down the Garden Path; The Three Musketeers vol 1; The House in Cornwall; A Tall Ship; The Two Saplings; Farewell Victoria; Quinneys; House of Terror; Penguin Parade 4; Guy Mannering[presumably a re-reading]; The Man Born to be King; Casterton Papers; Old Saint Paul's; The Moon is Down; 1066 and all That; My Brother Jonathon; Gulliver's Travels; Ensign Knightley; Men Against Death; Fame is the Spur; Gone with the Wind; Mesmer; First Nights; The Hound of the Baskervilles; Little Gidding; Beau Geste; Beau Sabreur; The Amazing Theatre; The Pleasure of Your Company; Dandelion Days; Humour and Fantasy; Juno and the Paycock; The Beautiful Years; Teach Yourself to Think; Salar the Salmon; The Cathedral; The Mysterious Mr I; The Picts and the Martyrs; The Dream of Fair Women; The Star-born; Three Short Stories; A Thatched Roof; The Surgeon's Log; The Healing Knife; Nine Ghosts; While Rome Burns; The Star Spangled Manner; The Day Must Dawn; The Tower of London; Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; The Old Man's Birthday; A little Princess; Ego 5; The Lighter Side of School Life; Kidnapped; The Trail of the Sandhill Stag; Ballet Lover's Notebook; Lorna Doone; The Plays of JM Barrie; Jane Eyre; I'll Leave it to You; Henry Fifth; Longer Poems; Antony and Cleopatra; The Man in Grey; The House in Dormer Forest; The Writing of English; Miss Mapp; The Song of Bernadette; Happy and Glorious; Sixty Poems; The Birth of Romance; The Comedy of Life; Some Little Tales; Dream Days; Royal Flush.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book
'I'm not keen to read books dealing with the current situation. War's grim enough, I prefer to
choose books without war interest. For that reason I try and get books
of the humourous kind, such as "Night on Wheels" by Ian Hay, and "The Diary of a Provincial
Lady" by E.M. Delafield. Books that provoke a laugh. During the winter months reading's been
my main hobby. As I'm a quick reader, naturally I choose fairly thick books of average size with
medium print. Never the large type. I like
a substantial book, not one that I can finish quickly. On the other hand I don't like books of the
size of "Gone with the Wind" or "Anthony Adverse", some 900 pages.
Either of these books should have been issued in two volumes.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book
'Wrote to Reg. Read "The Right Stuff". Up on the mat for being late last night. Pass stopped!? Visit from Miss Barnsley and her aunt - Mrs Frank Wright. Sweets & 5 books.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: John Frederick William Dunn Print: Book
'Didn't go out all day. May brought me from Library "Women the world over" and took back "Candles in the flame" and "Lighter side of school life["].'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Bickersteth Cook Print: Book
'Sun. Morn. Service. Cold much better. Read a Knight on Wheels by "Ian Hay". Card from Findlay. Much fighting on West.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Thomas Print: Book
'Read "The Right Stuff" by Ian Hay.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Thomas Print: Book
'Sat. Welcome May. Letter from home. Read "The Right Stuff" by Ian Hay ... Up 62 in bridge. Thunder Storm.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Thomas Print: Book
‘You mention Ian Hay and MacGill. I had a glance at Ian Hay, and wished I
could read it, but had to leave it. What I saw was very good indeed … By the
way have you ever read W. H. Davies "Autobiography of a Super-Tramp". It
would delight you immensely by its simplicity and plain truth … The only thing
poor about Autobiography is the title. I hate “Super” things.’
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ivor Bertie Gurney Print: Book
‘Your parcels have arrived … You have my deepest assurances that the
pleasure caused by your kindness has been considerable…. The reason I
dared to ask for all these things is—we have been so busy and so much in
the trenches, that it has been impossible to get these things ourselves, in
the towns and villages. As for our canteen, the only one is certain of
getting, is bootpolish … But now—the books. Shelley was very nice to get.
Keats I haven’t touched yet. But O—Walt Whitman! I never dreamed he
was so good … it has annoyed me to find so much in so tiny a book. I will
go as far as to say that no present has very given me so much pleasure …
Pip is a jolly book, and full of good descriptions of sport (O, what would a
clean hit for four feel like now?) But there is [no] need to send me such …
One can only read them once, then hand them on. True, a lot of men see
them. But Walt Whitman—why he has after some fashion renewed me.’
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ivor Bertie Gurney Print: Book
‘The next book for you to read is "A Knight on Wheels". It is great. I, with the
inherited diffidence of my distinguished Grandma, must say I could never do
anything like so great. I suppose in the million eyes of the Empire I have
already done a thing greater than this merry book; but, then, more fools the
million eyes …’
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen Print: Book
'We are now on board ship and expect to have four or
five days of it. It does seem a pity to have got so
near home and be unable to get nearer. Still, I have
heard the pipes playing last night, some of their
tunes "Highland Laddie," the "Barren Rocks," etc.,
being most appropriate ... Have just read The
Right Stuff by Ian Hay. Excellent! I shall write
Bisset to send it to you as an advance Birthday
present!'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Dunlop Smith Print: Book
'To my joy there was a book-case in the room and soon I was
engrossed in a book which I later found was Ian Hay's "The
First Hundred Thousand" a fictionalised account of the
formation of the Expeditionary Force which went to France in
the 1914-18 war. I was all too soon interrupted, however, and
taken out and put in the hearse beside the coffin, since there
was no room in the carriages, and the insertion of my small
bottom would have made it less comfortable for the occupants
of one side of the carriage. Mother, who had waited outside to
see the funeral depart, was horrified to see this done, but I
didn't mind.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hymie Fagan Print: Book
'I've been frightfully lazy today: it's been
too hot to do anything. Pater was a gem: he
brought my breakfast up about 9.30 and I didn't
get up until eleven. I read "Getting Together",
a pro-American little book by Ian Hay—he
has been out to America for the Government to
establish a feeling of goodwill and the book is
what he has discovered about the Yankees. Have
been reading Bulwer-Lytton's "Last Days of
Pompeii" this afternoon. It is awfully
interesting, especially as I have seen
Pompeii.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Dora Willatt Print: Book
'I received your two letters on Wednesday and
Thursday mornings. I had not thought that your
love for me is as great as it is and that you
have loved me ever since you were at
Rydal—it is very beautiful to me, Cecil,
that you have loved me all these years ... No
dear, I won't leave it over till after the war.
I know that at the bottom of your heart you
don't want to. Do you remember in "The Knight
on Wheels" that Philip wanted to be Peg's
knight and to do something for his lady
love—won't it help you to think you are
fighting for me—I want to look upon you
as my knight.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Dora Willatt Print: Book
