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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'Do you know I have read none of the books that you mentioned. Is not that shocking - but - Sylvia - you know that little "Harold Brown" shop in Wimpole Shop [for street...Katherine Mansfield Louis VintrasThe Silver NetPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been reading - French & English writing and lately have seen a great many Balls - and loved them - and dinners and receptions.'Katherine Mansfield  Print: Book
1900-1945'While I am on the subject of eating - for I am convinced E.F.Benson wrote the book on an empty, healthy tummy, do please read "Sheaves" - It is delightful and also, it i...Katherine Mansfield E.F. BensonSheavesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have adopted Stendhal. Every night I read him now & first thing in the morning.'Katherine Mansfield Stendhal Print: Book
1900-1945'I have adopted Stendhal. Every night I read him now & first thing in the morning.'Katherine Mansfield Stendhal Print: Book
1900-1945'Then I woke up, switched on the light, & began to read Venus & Adonis. It's pretty stuff - rather like the Death of Procris'.Katherine Mansfield William ShakespeareVenus and AdonisPrint: Book
1900-1945'I got up at that moment to re-read your article on Leon Bloy. The memory of it suddenly rose in my mind, like a scent'.Katherine Mansfield John Middleton MurryThe Loneliness of Leon BloyPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I got up at that moment to re-read your article on Leon Bloy. The memory of it suddenly rose in my mind, like a scent'.Katherine Mansfield John Middleton MurryThe Loneliness of Leon BloyPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I don't dare to work any more tonight. That is why I asked for another Dickens; if I read him in bed he diverts my mind.'Katherine Mansfield Charles Dickens Print: Book
1900-1945'There is a trifling scene in Virginia's book where a charming young creature in a bright fantastic attitude plays the flute: it positively frightens me - to realise this...Katherine Mansfield Virginia WoolfNight and DayPrint: Book
1900-1945'The novel can't just leave the war out [...] What has been - stands - but Jane Austen could not write Northanger Abbey now - or if she did I'd have none of her'.Katherine Mansfield Jane AustenNorthanger AbbeyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Since I came here I have been very interested in the Bible. I have read the Bible for hours on end.'Katherine Mansfield BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'I bought a book by Henry James yesterday and read it, as they say, "until far into the night". It was not very interesting or very good, but I can wade through pages an...Katherine Mansfield Henry JamesConfidencePrint: Book
1900-1945"Lady Cynthia Asquith ... believed [as she recorded in her diary] that 'Meredith is very good for reading aloud.' On 10 March 1916 she tested this proposition by reading...Lady Cynthia Asquith George MeredithThe EgoistPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read the lonely Nietzsche: but I felt a bit ashamed of my feelings for this man in the past. He is, if you like, "human, all too human." Read until late. I felt wre...Katherine Mansfield Nietzsche Print: Book
1900-1945"... Lady Cynthia [Asquith] was gratified to learn that, found in his pocket when Billy Grenfell was killed in battle in 1915 was a Meredith poem, copied out for him by h...Lady Desborough George Meredithpoem
1900-1945'I have read and sewed to-day, but not written a word'.Katherine Mansfield unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read in the evening and later read with J. a good deal of poetry'.Katherine Mansfield  Print: Book
1900-1945'Read in the evening and later read with J. a good deal of poetry'.Katherine Mansfield [poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945"At the age of 18 Violet Asquith ... tackled The Egoist, which 'I thought brilliant. The first 3 pages made me so angry by their obscureness ... that I nearly left off ....Violet Asquith George MeredithThe EgoistPrint: Book


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