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

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Howard Spring

  

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Howard Spring : Fame is the Spur

'Read and read "Fame is the Spur" which is gorgeous.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Book

  

Howard Spring : Fame is the Spur

'I like anything good....something like "The Stars Looked Down" or "Gone with the Wind"...."Fame is the Spur" is a lovely book.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

Howard Spring : Fame is the Spur

'"I don't read much - oh, a very mixed lot - "My Son Absalom" and "Fame is the Spur"' [then in response to question from interviewer] '- who, them? I enjoy travel books, that one there was so famous .!.. "Something in Tartary", extremely nice". (Fleming).'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

Howard Spring : review of Virginia Woolf, The Years

Friday 19 March 1937: '"They" say almost universally that The Years is a masterpiece [...] The praise chorus began yesterday: by the way I was walking in Covent Garden & found St Pauls, CG for the first time [...] then went to Burnets [of Garrick St.] [...] bought the E. Standard & found myself glorified as I read it in the Tube.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Newspaper

  

Howard Spring : Article in "St Martin's Review"

'But the real clue had been given by Howard Spring in an unpretentious article which appeared in "St. Martin's Review", the monthly magazine of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, for September 1942.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Serial / periodical

  

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