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

Click check box to select all entries on this page:

J. G. Frazer : The Golden Bough

Sunday 21 May 1933: 'Tonight sitting at the open window of a secondrate inn in Draguignan [...] I dip into Creevey; L[eonard]. into Golden Bough.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

J. G. Frazer : The Golden Bough

From Hallam Tennyson's journal (1890-91): 'May 28th. [1890] G. F. Watts left today, having done a fine portrait of my father [...] At the request of Watts, my father read the "Ode on the Duke of Wellington" [...] I read "The Golden Bough" and the "Story of a Balaclava Hero" to Watts and my father, while the portrait was in hand.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Hallam Tennyson      Print: Book

Click check box to select all entries on this page: