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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'There used to be a bookshop just off Leicester Square, near the Leicester Galleries, and upstairs they had all kinds of American trade magazines...'Alfred Hitchcock Motion Picture HeraldPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'There used to be a bookshop just off Leicester Square, near the Leicester Galleries, and upstairs they had all kinds of American trade magazines...'Alfred Hitchcock Cinematograph Lantern WeeklyPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'There used to be a bookshop just off Leicester Square, near the Leicester Galleries, and upstairs they had all kinds of American trade magazines...'Alfred Hitchcock The BioscopePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945[Spoto states that Hitchcock read Flaubert when he was around 15 or 16 and] 'He afterwards admitted that his favourite character in fiction was Emma Bovary.'Alfred Hitchcock Gustav FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book
1900-1945[Spoto states that Hitchcock read Marie Corelli's "The Sorrows of Satan" in 1920/21 in preparation for helping to make a film of it which was afterwards abandoned.]Alfred Hitchcock Marie CorelliThe Sorrows of SatanPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mary Lakeman, a Cornish fisherman's daughter, confirmed what George Orwell had written in "Riding Down from Bangor": "Little Women", "Good Wives", "What Katy Did", "Avon...Mary Lakeman Louisa May AlcottLittle WomenPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mary Lakeman, a Cornish fisherman's daughter, confirmed what George Orwell had written in "Riding Down from Bangor": "Little Women", "Good Wives", "What Katy Did", "Avon...Mary Lakeman Louisa May AlcottGood WivesPrint: Book
1900-1945I have not read 'La Garçonne'. I got about half way through it and then I had to give up, not because of its indecency but because it its dullness, poorness, and badness...Arnold Bennett Paul MargueritteLe DésastrePrint: Book
1900-1945'It was filled with a high but vague nonconformity, and tried to combine the ideals of revivalist Christianity and great literature. There were articles on 'aspects' of R...Edwin Muir Great ThoughtsPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Cassell's Weekly. The magazine was full of literary go...Catherine McMullen Philip Stanhope, 4th Lord ChesterfieldLetters of Lord Chesterfield to his SonPrint: Book
1900-1945'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Cassell's Weekly. The magazine was full of literary go...Catherine McMullen T.P. and Cassell's WeeklyPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Cassell's Weekly. The magazine was full of literary go...Catherine McMullen Elinor GlynThe Career of Catherine BushPrint: Book
1900-1945'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Cassell's Weekly. The magazine was full of literary go...Catherine McMullen Geoffrey Chaucer Print: Book
1900-1945'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Cassell's Weekly. The magazine was full of literary go...Catherine McMullen John Donne Print: Book
1900-1945'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Cassell's Weekly. The magazine was full of literary go...Catherine McMullen Desiderius Erasmus Rotterdamus Print: Book
1900-1945'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Cassell's Weekly. The magazine was full of literary go...Catherine McMullen Edward GibbonThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman E...Print: Book
1900-1945'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Cassell's Weekly. The magazine was full of literary go...Catherine McMullen James JoyceFinnegan's WakePrint: Book
1900-1945'Despising his job in a Birmingham factory, V.W. Garratt surrounded his workbench with a barricade of boxes, set up a small mirror to provide early warning of the foreman...V.W. Garratt Thomas CarlyleSartor ResartusPrint: Book
1900-1945'Garratt escaped [from factory life] to an evening course in English literature, where he felt "like a child that becomes ecstatic with a fireworks display". Keats, Shell...V.W. Garratt John Keats Print: Book
1900-1945'Garratt escaped [from factory life] to an evening course in English literature, where he felt "like a child that becomes ecstatic with a fireworks display". Keats, Shell...V.W. Garratt Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book


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