'Read... Manni's Life of Burchiello, copying extracts'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
'This week I have read a satire of Juvenal, some of Cicero's "De Officiis", part of Epictetus' Enchiridion, two cantos of Pulci, part of the Canti Carnascialeschi, and finished Manni's Veglie Piacevole, besides looking up various things in the classical antquities and peeping into Theocritus'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
'Followed by the thought that, had I not been reading Ethel Mannin's "Green Willow", which gives a vivid description of this development, perhaps I would not have taken sides.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book
'Reggie Smith, also a producer at the BBC, was married to the novelist Olivia Manning. She was to draw him with exquisite accuracy, and some bitterness, as Guy in her series of novels, The Balkan trilogy - schoolboy innocence, unthinking cruelty, shallow enthusiasms, superficially generous-spirited and outgoing but essentially egotistical, a mixture of coldness and an insatiable need for warmth'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser Print: Book
