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

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'"Reading for me then was haphazard, unguided, practically uncritical", recalled boilermaker's daughter Marjory Todd. "I slipped all too easily into those traps for the h...Marjory Todd Joseph ConradLord JimPrint: Book
1900-1945'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Bennett, Galsworthy, Edith Wharton and Willa Cather'.Herbert Ernest Bates Joseph Conrad[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945[the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual development of the time, discovering such writers as B...Edwin Muir Joseph Conrad Print: Book
1900-1945Henry James, in 1 November 1906 letter to Joseph Conrad, writes of having just read and admired "The Mirror of the Sea".Henry James Joseph ConradThe Mirror of the SeaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Conrad?s book, though of course very distinguished, is not as good as his last.' Arnold Bennett Joseph ConradSecret Agent, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 5 February 1914: 'I have the volume [one by Walpole] (since last night), and shall attack it as soon as I finish Conrad's "Chance". I have so...Henry James Joseph ConradChancePrint: Book
1900-1945'[Around 1912-13, when she began her association with Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott] Charlotte [Mew] [...] was reading Flaubert as always, Chekhov, Conrad and Verlaine'. Charlotte Mew Joseph Conrad Print: Unknown
1900-1945'On the wall at the side of the chimney Dad put up the bookshelves which Dodie began to fill with secondhand penny books. Over the years we had Conrad and Wodehouse, Eric...family of Rose GambleJoseph Conrad[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Wednesday, 24th March, Today would have been deadly dull but for the Lincoln. Queer how so many of us get caught up in these periodical excitements. I neither know a...Gerald Moore Joseph ConradAlmayer's FollyPrint: Book
1850-1899'That Conrad book is magnificent.' Arnold Bennett Joseph ConradThe Nigger of the NarcissusPrint: Book
1850-1899'My Dear Wells, I owe you a good turn for pointing out Conrad to me. I remember I got his first book, Almayer?s Folly, to review with a batch of others from Unwin, & fee...Arnold Bennett Joseph ConradThe Nigger of the NarcissusPrint: Book
1900-1945'I do not think "Romance" is good. In fact it isn?t & I don?t care who knows it. Ever read Dostoevsky?s Crime and Punishment? English translation damnable; but it is a...Arnold Bennett Joseph ConradRomancePrint: Book
1900-1945'I read 'Higuerota' again not long since, I always think of that book as 'Higuerota', the said mountain being the principal personage in the story, When I first read it...Arnold Bennett Joseph ConradNostromoPrint: Book
1900-1945'. . . when I recall the quiet domestic scenes behind the shop in 'The Secret Agent' here is rather the sort of thing I reckon to handle myself?but I respectfully retire ...Arnold Bennett Joseph ConradThe Secret AgentPrint: Book
1900-1945'. . . when I recall the quiet domestic scenes behind the shop in 'The Secret Agent' here is rather the sort of thing I reckon to handle myself?but I respectfully retire ...Arnold Bennett Joseph ConradUnder Western EyesPrint: Book
1900-1945'. . . when I recall the quiet domestic scenes behind the shop in 'The Secret Agent' here is rather the sort of thing I reckon to handle myself?but I respectfully retire ...Arnold Bennett Joseph ConradThe Secret SharerPrint: Book
1900-1945'I do not think that "Victory" is anything like equal to "Chance". In fact it is not first-rate Conrad, "Chance" is. "Bealby" I have never read. Wells sends me all his...Arnold Bennett Joseph ConradVictoryPrint: Book
1900-1945'I do not think that "Victory" is anything like equal to "Chance". In fact it is not first-rate Conrad, "Chance" is. "Bealby" I have never read. Wells sends me all his...Arnold Bennett Joseph ConradChancePrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 23 February 1920: 'Mother is reading "The Arrow of Lead" as she calls it, and finds it very slow.'Alice Clara Forster Joseph ConradThe Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two NotesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Winifred did not care, for she was reading Conrad's "Suspense" - a noble and spacious book which made the early nineteenth century come alive for her in a clear yet fain...Winifred Holtby Joseph ConradSuspensePrint: Book


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