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

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Henry Seton Merriman (pseud) : The Sowers

'Weak and tired and inclined as always when out of action and interest, to go to pieces. Read, after twenty years, Merriman's miserable "[The] Sowers", Psalms and John iii in Arabic, some Tennyson and Swinburne, and the "Adventures of Sherlock Holmes".'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ronald Storrs      Print: Book

Henry Seton Merriman : Barlasch of the Guard

'Read ... "Barlash [sic] of the Guard". Dressed & sat by the fire. Dominoes.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Frederick William Dunn      Print: Book

Henry Seton Merriman : The Vultures

'Fri. Nil [i.e., no post]. Read The Vultures by Merriman.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Thomas      Print: Book

Henry Seton Merriman : The Slave of the Lamp

'Letter from home May 5^th. Roullette -5. Read Slave of Lamp by Merriman.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Thomas      Print: Book

Henry Seton Merriman : [unknown]

'Merriman is a far cry from the Brontes. Both of course are good, but while they should be sipped with luxurious slowness in the winter evening, he may be read in a cheap copy on top of a tram. And yet I don't know: of course his novels are melodrama, but then they are the best melodrama ever written, while passages like the "Storm" or the "Wreck" in the Grey Lady, or the Reconciliation between the hero and his father in "Edged Tools", are as good things as English prose contains.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Clive Staples Lewis      Print: Book

Henry Seton Merriman : The Sowers

'After lunch sat in study read paper and "The Sowers."'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Verena Vera Pennefather      Print: Book

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