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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 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... [n/a][daily newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Lady Cynthia Asquith's diary recorded about one January Sunday in 1917, "Stayed in bed until dinner. I read 'East Lynne' till my eyes ached."'Lady Cynthia Asquith Mrs Henry WoodEast LynnePrint: Book
1900-1945' ... from a chance meeting in a railway carriage with Kipling, [Newman] Flower discovered that he had read ... [The Story-Teller] almost from the first.'Rudyard Kipling The Story-TellerPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ... liked to get away from political anxieties by devouring what he called "shilling shockers": adventure stories, American...Lloyd George cheap popular fictionPrint: Book
1900-1945'Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ... liked to get away from political anxieties by devouring what he called "shilling shockers": adventure stories, American...Lloyd George Charles DickensunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ... liked to get away from political anxieties by devouring what he called "shilling shockers": adventure stories, American...Lloyd George George Gordon, Lord ByronunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ... liked to get away from political anxieties by devouring what he called "shilling shockers": adventure stories, American...Lloyd George John MiltonunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ... liked to get away from political anxieties by devouring what he called "shilling shockers": adventure stories, American...Lloyd George Robert BurnsunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ... liked to get away from political anxieties by devouring what he called "shilling shockers": adventure stories, American...Lloyd George Jeffrey FarnolThe Amateur GentlemanPrint: Book
1900-1945' ... at Stanway in 1916 for her sister's twenty-first birthday, Lady Cynthia [Asquith] entertained family and guests after dinner by [mockingly] reading from The Rosary ...Lady Cynthia Asquith Florence L. BarclayThe RosaryPrint: Book
1900-194513/3/1904 - "He was able to read on the last morning of his life, asking me to bring him an article on Shakespeare and a new poem by Thomas Hardy."Leslie Stephen Thomas Hardy Print: Serial / periodical
1900-194513/3/1904 - "He was able to read on the last morning of his life, asking me to bring him an article on Shakespeare and a new poem by Thomas Hardy."Leslie Stephen [an article on Shakespeare]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945. . . [George] Sturt, Bennett's supposedly 'aesthetic' critic, was not particularly admiring of 'Anna'[of the Five Towns]; he writes complaining that Bennett makes 'an in...George Sturt Arnold BennettAnna of the Five TownsPrint: Book
1900-1945'. . . the cab driver reads a coloured comic paper . . .'[a cab driver] anon  Print: Newspaper
1900-1945John Partridge on popularity of Charles Garvice's fiction: '[at Easter 1911] I looked round a large kiosk at a popular seaside place and observed that Mr Charles Garvice'...John Partridge The Daily ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'...in December 1918 ... [Sir Anthony] Deane organized at All Saints, Ennismore Gardens, a memorial service for authors killed in the war, at which Edmund Gosse read the ...Edmund Gosse LessonPrint: Book
1900-1945Newman Flower, head of Cassell's, describes returning to work after period of illness to find first bound copy of Hall Caine's The Woman of Knockaloe (1923): 'I began to ...Newman Flower Hall CaineThe Woman of Knockaloe (Introduction)Print: Book
1900-1945'In Switzerland in 1908 Arnold Bennett met in his hotel an Anglo-Indian army major ... Bennett thought of engaging his opinions about Indian government reform until he no...Marie CorelliHoly OrdersPrint: Book
1900-1945"Rupert Brook [ironically] advised Geoffrey and Maynard Keynes against attempting The Sorrows of Satan, [Marie] Corelli's principal best-seller: 'It is the richest work o...Rupert Brooke Marie CorelliThe Sorrows of SatanPrint: Book
1900-1945'On Friday afternoon I went to Mudie's. What a fascinating place it is!! I had some peeps into most lovely books, & the bindings were exquisite'.Katherine Mansfield [unknown][unknown]Print: Book


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