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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'I received a commission within six months [of the declaration of war] and was posted to a battalion of the Green Howards, my local North Riding regiment, then trai...Herbert Edward Read The New AgePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'A New Antigone'Sarah Good William Francis BarryThe New AntigonePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have … changed billet, and the chaps here are very nice indeed. Good men, which is a great point. But in this new democracy almost everyone is jolly, or tries to b...Ivor Bertie Gurney Rudyard KiplingThe New Army in TrainingPrint: Book
1900-1945'"We face a choice of evils," H. N. Brailsford had written in "The New Clarion" after the break-up of the Disarmament Conference.'Vera Brittain H. N. BrailsfordThe New ClarionPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Jude the Obscure, Edward Carpenter's Love's Coming of Age, Grant Allen's The Woman Who Did, H.G. Well's The New Machiavelli and Ann Veronica, as well as the examples of ...Eva Slawson Herbert George WellsThe New MachiavelliPrint: Book
1900-1945'Friday 15th October. Bought ?The Picture of Dorian Grey? in the Paris edition and the ?New Machiavelli? Benn?s new uniform edition of Wells. The latter are easily th...Gerald Moore H.G. WellsThe New MachiavelliPrint: Book
1900-1945'Wednesday 20th October. Rehearsal ? ?Brothers B.?. Did not go to rehearsal but went home to have a quiet evening and read ?Machiavelli?. Some day I must put my tho...Gerald Moore H.G. WellsThe New MachiavelliPrint: Book
1900-1945'The New M is a magnificent work.'Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsThe New MachiavelliPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 July 1911: 'I have been reading Kipling's child's history of England with mingled joy and disgust. It's a fine conception, but oh ...Edward Morgan Forster H. G. WellsThe New MachiavelliPrint: Book
1900-1945' This is really great, great in every dimension. [...] I have read the book ["The New Machiavelli"] yesterday and this evening I re-read it from pp.290-504. I don't know...Joseph Conrad H. G. (Herbert George) WellsThe New MachiavelliPrint: Book
1850-1899'That reminds me of Mallock?s New Republic in Belgravia; it is decidedly clever ? Jowett especially. If you have the key to all the actors please send it to me.'Oscar Wilde William Hurrell MallockThe New Republic, or Culture, Faith and Philosophy...Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799
1800-1849		H. J. Jackson notes pencilled parodic completions by unknown (apparently male) reader of verses in The New School of Love, "a tiny Scottish chapbook of the kind sold by i...anon The New School of LovePrint: Book
1900-1945'The India book is most interesting. Nevinson is a dear. What is happening now there only shows that nations as well as men may find themselves in a bitterly false positi...Joseph Conrad Henry Woodd NevinsonThe New Spirit in IndiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read more. But cannot concentrate on the type of literature I like, preferring now, a light novel or auto-biography to escape the present day. With the loss of "US" cl... The New StatesmanPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Yes, I read more as have more time- but have gone onto novels and escapist literature- cannot read such books as The Mortal Storm and books like Fallen Bastions now. I a... The New StatesmanPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'In your issue of August 29th, reviewing war literature, you say: "Almost without exception during the last fortnight our eminent novelists have rushed into print as aut...Arnold Bennett The New StatesmanPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Saturday 18 February 1922: 'Within the last few minutes I have skimmed the reviews in the New Statesman; between coffee & cigarette I read the Nation: now the best brains...Virginia Woolf The New StatesmanPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'This is a very good number. [The New Statesman]. The Wells review seems most just, but I haven’t yet finished the book. [The Soul of a Bishop]'Arnold Bennett The New StatesmanPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 2 August 1915: 'I read (and sometimes write) the New Statesman [...] also the Morning Post [...] I enclose from it this jolly letter ...Edward Morgan Forster The New StatesmanPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'came home & read a chapter or two in the New Testament'John Clare The New TestamentPrint: Book


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