'Charlotte [Mew] used to read [...] [lines from her 1912 poem "The Changeling", in which a child speaker ponders reasons for its own existence] aloud [...] to children of her acquaintance, giving no explanation, because she believed [...] that none would be needed. They understood her at once.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Mew Print: Unknown
Charlotte Mew to Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott, 12 May 1914: '"Looking through some of Ella [D'Arcy]'s old letters [...] I find she wrote to me 3 about the Requiescat ... she had seen it in "The Nation"and wrote [...] Thanking me for sending it to her [...] and adding "it goes into my private anthology".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ella D'Arcy Print: Serial / periodical
'In the early spring of 1913 Sappho [i.e. Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott, nicknamed after a poem she had authored] wrote in her diary:
'"When Charlotte [Mew] came [to Mrs Dawson Scott's house] I persuaded her to read to us "The Farmer's Bride", and May [Sinclair] was so won over that she deserted me and they went away together."'
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Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Mew
'[Charlotte Mew's poem] "The Forest Road" is almost impossible to follow; Dr Scott [husband of Mew's friend Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott] read it and said it was so deeply realized that he felt the author must be mad'.
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Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Dr Scott
'Alida [Klementaski], like Mrs [Catherine] Dawson Scott, had read "The Farmer's Bride" in 1912, and had not forgotten it.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Alida Klementaski Print: Serial / periodical
'Alida [Klementaski], like Mrs [Catherine] Dawson Scott, had read "The Farmer's Bride" in 1912, and had not forgotten it.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Dawson Scott Print: Serial / periodical
'In the July of 1918 a copy of "The Farmer's Bride" arrived in [Sydney] Cockerell's vast daily post, with a stiff little note from Charlotte [Mew] [...] No worry [...] about his reading it; he always read everything, and he fell in love immediately with "The Farmer's Bride".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Cockerell Print: Book
'[Sydney] Cockerell [...] busied himself with sending "The Farmer's Bride" to everyone he could think of [...] Wilfred Scawen Blunt [...] found the situations in Charlotte [Mew]'s poems puzzling and questioned their "sexual sincerity". Siegfried Sassoon was captivated at once and remained her faithful reader always. A. E. Housman [...] liked the little book, although he complained [in letter of 9 September 1918] that, like most female poets, Miss Mew put in ornament that did not suit the speaker.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Scawen Blunt Print: Book
'[Sydney] Cockerell [...] busied himself with sending "The Farmer's Bride" to everyone he could think of [...] Wilfred Scawen Blunt [...] found the situations in Charlotte [Mew]'s poems puzzling and questioned their "sexual sincerity". Siegfried Sassoon was captivated at once and remained her faithful reader always. A. E. Housman [...] liked the little book, although he complained [in letter of 9 September 1918] that, like most female poets, Miss Mew put in ornament that did not suit the speaker.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Siegfried Sassoon Print: Book
'[Sydney] Cockerell [...] busied himself with sending "The Farmer's Bride" to everyone he could think of [...] Wilfred Scawen Blunt [...] found the situations in Charlotte [Mew]'s poems puzzling and questioned their "sexual sincerity". Siegfried Sassoon was captivated at once and remained her faithful reader always. A. E. Housman [...] liked the little book, although he complained [in letter of 9 September 1918] that, like most female poets, Miss Mew put in ornament that did not suit the speaker.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: A. E. Housman Print: Book
'In 1916 one of the tasks of the second Mrs Hardy was to read aloud in the evenings at their Dorchester home, Max Gate, to the old great man whom she so carefully tended. It was difficult to know what he would and wouldn't like [...] but he took to "The Farmer's Bride"'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Florence Hardy Print: Book
Penelope Fitzgerald relates how, during Charlotte Mew's stay at his home in December 1918, Thomas Hardy 'read some of his own poems to her, and she read him something which pleased him very much, "Saturday Market".'
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Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Mew
'Siegfried Sassoon [...] bought [Sydney] Cockerell the first number of [Harold] Monro's new shilling magazine, "The Monthly Chapbook". On the last page was Charlotte [Mew]'s "Sea Love", certainly a new poem, which delighted both of them (and delighted [Thomas] Hardy too when it arrived at Max Gate).'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Siegfried Sassoon Print: Serial / periodical
'Siegfried Sassoon [...] bought [Sydney] Cockerell the first number of [Harold] Monro's new shilling magazine, "The Monthly Chapbook". On the last page was Charlotte [Mew]'s "Sea Love", certainly a new poem, which delighted both of them (and delighted [Thomas] Hardy too when it arrived at Max Gate).'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Cockerell Print: Serial / periodical
'Siegfried Sassoon [...] bought [Sydney] Cockerell the first number of [Harold] Monro's new shilling magazine, "The Monthly Chapbook". On the last page was Charlotte [Mew]'s "Sea Love", certainly a new poem, which delighted both of them (and delighted [Thomas] Hardy too when it arrived at Max Gate).'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Hardy Print: Serial / periodical
'Louis Untermeyer [an American poet] [...] had [...] been carried away by "Madeleine[in Church]" when Siegfried Sassoon read it to him [in 1920]'.
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Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Siegfried Sassoon
After Thomas Hardy's death on 11 January 1928, his literary executor Sydney Cockerell 'found a piece of paper on which Hardy had copied out "Fin de Fete" [by Charlotte Mew]'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Hardy Print: Serial / periodical
