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

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William Rothenstein : Men and Memories

'He even found time to be as courteous and helpful as ever to old friends, reading through, for instance, William Rothenstein's 'Men and Memories in typescript, with many encouraging and critical comments'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Manuscript: typescript

William Rothenstein : Men and Memoirs

I am returning your Memoirs. Technically they have practically no faults, except those of the typist. A few slips here and there. And also one or two places where I think a little cutting might be done. . . . Finally you need have no qualms about the book, either technically of as to its interestingness. As a fact you write a damned sight too skilfully for a painter.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Manuscript: typescript

William Rothenstein : A Plea for a Wider Use of Artists and Craftsmen

'Thanks for your pamphlet, to which I responded with every feeling and conviction that go to make up my "less perishable" being. And how beautifully all those deeply felt truths are said!'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      

William Rothenstein : Twenty-Four Portraits, with Critical Appreciation by Various Hands

'Thanks ever so much for the admirable book of portraits. Every one is a revelation-especially of course those of the people one knows, if ever so little.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

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