Shelfmark
Lk.5.05
Additional shelfmark
Lkk.4.24 (copy 2)
Author
Title
Little innocents : childhood reminiscences / by Dame Ethel Smyth, Lord Berners, Harold Nicolson ... [and 27 others] ; preface by Alan Pryce-Jones.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Cobden-Sanderson, 1932.
Physical description
124 p. ; 22 cm.
Note
"Printed in England for R. Cobden-Sanderson Ltd. by the Shenval Press"--t.p. verso.
Note
Publisher's green cloth binding ; gilt lettering on spine ; pictorial dust-jacket printed in green.
Formatted contents note
Preface / Alan Pryce-Jones -- "Only..." / Dame Ethel Smyth -- Neighbours / Lord Berners -- "Pure in Heart" / Harold Nicolson -- Infancy / Dorothy Wellesley -- Winning the Steeplechase at Winchester / Lord Alfred Douglas -- Bells on the Breeze / Edmund Blunden -- Parental Vagaries / Baroness Ravensdale -- My Grandmother's House / James Laver -- Those Elfin Days / Sylvia Pankhurst -- The Fear of God / H.J. Massingham -- Villa Macolai / Rose Macaulay -- Fear in Fancy Dress / Edward Sackville-West -- From two to Ten! / Alice, Lady Lowther -- The Tail / Sonia Keppel -- All These I Learnt / Robert Byron -- Early Days / Princess Antoine Bibesco -- Talk of the Devil / C.B. Cochran -- Some Children in the 'Sixties / Louisa, Countess of Antrim -- "Upper School" / John Betjeman -- What I Wore in the 'Nineties / Nina Hamnett -- The Marseillaise / J.B. Morton -- The Curse of the Horse Race / Evelyn Waugh -- Shameful Reminiscence / V. Sackville-West -- The Tragic Years / E.M. Delafield -- First Disobedience and the Fruit / Raymond Mortimer -- "Mysterium, Tremendum, Fascinaus" / Lord Clonmore -- Going to Heaven / Brian Howard -- Early Snobberies / Lady Longford -- A Seventeenth Century Survival / Gerald Heard -- Childhood / J.C. Squire.
Provenance
Copy 1: Bequeathed by Kenneth Rose, 2014.
Provenance
Copy 1: Signed by Mrs A. Goatcher on front pastedown and by Kenneth Rose on front endpaper.
Provenance
Copy 2: Ownership inscription of J. Griffiths, Liverpool.
Binding
Copy 1: Wanting the dust-jacket.
Binding
Copy 2: Dust-jacket in clear plastic protective wrapper.
Copy-specific note
Copy 1: Ms. footnote by Kenneth Rose on p. 83: "John Betjeman once told me that 'Crossman' was really Denys Wilkinson, the Eton master".
Subject
Children Reminiscing.
Subject
Children Great Britain Biography.
Subject
Great Britain Social life and customs 19th century.
Subject
Great Britain Social life and customs 20th century.
Added entry--name
Cobden-Sanderson, Richard publisher.
Added entry--name
Rose, Kenneth, 1924 - ? donor.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B35154