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

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Eric Linklater : Great Ship, The

'Shopped and tried to find some books. Succeeded at last in getting "The Great Ship", the play by Linklater that JG was in last year on the wireless.' [NB "The Great Ship" appears on the list of 'Books read during this year' [1944] at end of diary]

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

Eric Linklater : [unknown]

'On the wall at the side of the chimney Dad put up the bookshelves which Dodie began to fill with secondhand penny books. Over the years we had Conrad and Wodehouse, Eric Linklater and Geoffrey Farnol, Edgar Wallace, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, Mark Twain, Arnold Bennett, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Buchan, and a host of others, good, bad and awful, and we read the lot, some of them over and over.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: family of Rose Gamble     Print: Book

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