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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'[C. F.] Andrews was a missionary with the Cambridge Brotherhood and present at [William] Rothenstein's Hampstead home on 30 June 1912, when, before a select audience, in...William Butler Yeats Rabindranath TagorePoems from Gitanjali: Song OfferingsUnknown
1900-1945'Arnold Bennett, when reading [Herbert] Spencer's posthumously published Autobiography (1904), found the account "disappointingly deficient in emotion".'Arnold Bennett Herbert SpencerAutobiographyPrint: Book
1900-1945'... [Thomas Hardy] did once chance a criticism of Lady Grove's description of her brush with an unhelpful shop assistant when he read the proofs of The Social Fetich (19...Thomas Hardy Lady GroveThe Social FetichPrint: Book
1900-1945'At one poetical evening [at Wilfrid Blunt's home Crabbet Park], when the guests included A. E. Housman and Desmond MacCarthy ... Wilfrid [Meynell] was requested to read ...Wilfrid Meynell George MeredithModern LovePrint: Book
1900-1945'The last Quarterly contained a dishonest and offensive attack upon me by an American journalist, whom I dimly remember as an employe of Blorrity years ago when I refused...J.E.C. Bodley Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945It is amusing to find him writing to Sturt, in 1900, to persuade him that it would be a good idea to try to sell 'Bettesworth' to Pearson's (a firm for which he was not a...Arnold Bennett George Sturt The Bettesworth BookManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'I see that a new volume of the Dizzy life is announced.'Algernon Cecil Advertisement of book on Disraeli's Life in the Qu...Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'As I am writing to you, it wd, I feel, be disingenuous in me if I did not tell you how fully I share the surprise and regret which some at least whose opinion you would,...J.C. Collins Article on Stephen Phillips in the Quarterly Revie...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Dear Mr. Prothero, Did you see the Morning Post of last Wednesday or Thursday? The headlines ran: "British Spy in the Kiel Canal" and then they proceed to give my name a...J.M. de Beaufort Article in the Morning Post entitled 'British Spy ...Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'I think Algernon's article is quite first rate, about the best thing he ever wrote. It is at once individual and sane - don't you think so?'John Bailey Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I was astonished to find the following in the Quarterly Review: — "England has Carlyle". "There is no other English name to be placed beside that of Carlyle." Car...Donald Brown Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I was astonished to find the following in the Quarterly Review: - "England has Carlyle". "There is no other English name to be placed beside that of Carlyle." Carlyle w...T. Market Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I was astonished to find the following in the Quarterly Review: - "England has Carlyle". "There is no other English name to be placed beside that of Carlyle." Carlyle w...W. A. Pool Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'My dear Prothero, I hope you will not mind my saying as an old friend and contributor to the Quarterly how much I regret seeing in the July issue the article "India unde...Valentine Chirol Article entitled "India under Lord Hardinge" in th...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Dear Dr. Prothero, Are you reading Curtin's articles in the Times? I have followed every one of them very carefully, and I must admit I started reading them with some an...J.M. de Beaufort CurtinThe Times (series of articles)Print: Newspaper
1900-1945"When ... [Mrs Humphrey Ward] read aloud from Canadian Born (1910) to the assembled guests at Lord Stanley's part at Alderley Park, the verdict was that 'it was terribly ...Mrs Humphrey Ward Mrs Humphrey WardCanadian BornUnknown
1900-1945'During her visit [to America] in 1905-6 May Sinclair was reduced to tears when she saw one article, based on a conversation over tea, which she felt included too intimat...May Sinclair unknownarticlePrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1900-1945' ... in Egypt during the Great War [E. M.] Forster applied himself to read [Henry] James. Struggling with What Maisie Knew (1897), he rather thought that "she is my ver...Edward Morgan Forster Henry JamesWhat Maisie KnewPrint: Book
1900-1945Not long ago I happened to call at the railway carter, and found the wife of the man engaged in reading George Eliots' 'Adam Bede'George EliotAdam BedePrint: Book
1900-1945'I am forming my opinions mainly from what I read in books on economies, politics, history, etc. I read the daily papers, but I do not take a lot of notice of what I read... [unknown][books]Print: Book


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