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Horatio Brown : Memoir of John Addington Symonds

Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 27 December 1894: "I have been reading with the liveliest -- and almost painful -- interest the two volumes on the extraordinary Symonds."

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James      Print: Book

Horatio Forbes Brown : John Addington Symonds: A Biography Compiled from

'I have been reading the Life of Mr Symond, and it makes me almost laugh (though there is little laughing in my heart) to think of the strange difference between this prosaic little narrative,all about the facts of a life so simple, and his elaborate self- discussions.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant      Print: Book

Horatio Brown : Venetian Studies

[between Journal entries for 1 October 1887 and 6 January 1889] 'Horatio Brown, the well-known writer on Venetian history and art, was one of the English colony who came to Ca' Capello, and Lady Charlotte read his Venetian Studies which he had just published.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

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