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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'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night shift at a railway station, Hanley withdrew into the ...James Hanley Gerhart Hauptmann[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night shift at a railway station, Hanley withdrew into the ...James Hanley Pedro Calderon de la Barca[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night shift at a railway station, Hanley withdrew into the ...James Hanley Hermann Sudermann[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night shift at a railway station, Hanley withdrew into the ...James Hanley Henrik Ibsen[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night shift at a railway station, Hanley withdrew into the ...James Hanley Jonas Lie[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night shift at a railway station, Hanley withdrew into the ...James Hanley August Strindberg[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night shift at a railway station, Hanley withdrew into the ...James Hanley Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1900-1945'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night shift at a railway station, Hanley withdrew into the ...James Hanley Honore de BalzacEugenie GrandetPrint: Book
1900-1945'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night shift at a railway station, Hanley withdrew into the ...James Hanley Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevFathers and SonsPrint: Book
1900-1945'...he had read so much of de Maupassant, and had admired him for so many years, that probably his manner and his conceptions had sunk into his subconscious. As he sai...Arnold Bennett Guy de MaupassantBel-AmiPrint: Book
1900-1945[Harry Burton recalled' "we wallowed in Eric and St Winifred's and other school stories, especially Talbot Baines Reed's"...[Burton] like other working class children pre...Harry Burton Frederick W. Farrar[St Winifred's School Stories]Print: Book
1900-1945'When he reread "Une Vie", in March 1908, he could find faults, but they were irrelevant to the work that had been done to him.'Arnold Bennett Guy de MaupassantUne ViePrint: Book
1900-1945[Harry Burton recalled' "we wallowed in Eric and St Winifred's and other school stories, especially Talbot Baines Reed's"...[Burton] like other working class children pre...Harry Burton Talbot Baines Reed[School Stories]Print: Book
1900-1945[Harry Burton recalled' "we wallowed in Eric and St Winifred's and other school stories, especially Talbot Baines Reed's"...[Burton] like other working class children pre...Harry Burton Frank Richards[School Stories in the Magnet and the Gem]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'A more recent influence was Huysmans' "Les Soeurs Vatards", a novel about artisan life in a lace-maker's atelier in Paris, which he read with great admiration in March 1...Arnold Bennett Joris Karl HuysmansLes Soeurs VatardsPrint: Book
1900-1945'. . . Jules Claretie's "L'Histoire de la R?volution de 1870-1871." He says that he "looked at the pictures" in Claretie (though there is little doubt that he read it to...Arnold Bennett Jules ClaretieL'Histoire de la R?volution de 1870-1871Print: Book
1900-1945'And Bennett had now become a man of influence, largely through his "New Age" pieces. These articles, which he had begun in 1908, were widely read and admired . . . Ford...Ford Madox Ford Arnold BennettNew AgePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'He did a good deal of research, reading up the "Victoria History of the Potteries" and various other documentary sources'.Arnold Bennett unknownVictoria History of the PotteriesPrint: Book
1900-1945"He would read acts of 'The Honeymoon' aloud to the two women, conscious that he did not read well, but considering it as a good test, to see if his lines could withstand...Arnold Bennett Arnold BennettThe HoneymoonManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'. . . her short stories, 'The Little Karoo', all set in the South Africa of her childhood, were widely admired and are still remembered. Bennett must have felt a justif...Arnold Bennett Pauline SmithThe Little KarooPrint: Book


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