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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 reading lots (Benvenuto Cellini?s autobiography) ? playing lots of music - & it makes life much easier.' Benjamin Britten Benvenuto CelliniAutobiographyPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1900-1945 'I have been working with Shakespeare (a very good book) with an occasional dip into Aiken, and my B flats and Bs really do sound like them now, although I still get sti...Peter Pears ShakespeareArt of Singing, ThePrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1900-1945'I have been working with Shakespeare (a very good book) with an occasional dip into Aiken, and my B flats and Bs really do sound like them now, although I still get stif...Peter Pears W A AikenThe Voice: An Introduction to Practical PhonologyPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1900-1945'I have received some copies of "The Roll Call". They are odious in a very high degree. I do not complain of the quality of the paper, but I object to there being two h...Arnold Bennett Arnold BennettThe Roll CallPrint: Book
1900-1945'In the November before, he had said to himself as he sat reading history, "I am 46. On the decline. why fill my head with knowledge?"'Arnold Bennett [history]Unknown
1900-1945'In a letter to Mrs Herzog he says: "Wells's new novel, Marriage, of which I have just read the proofs, contains more intimate conveyances of the atmosphere of married li...Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsMarriageManuscript: Unknown, proofs of book
1900-1945'. . . reading the reviews, not even the book, of Mrs Parnell's "Life of Parnell". There was a full-page review in "The Times" of 19 May, and on 21 May another long piec...Arnold Bennett Times, ThePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'. . . reading the reviews, not even the book, of Mrs Parnell's "Life of Parnell". There was a full-page review in "The Times" of 19 May, and on 21 May another long piec...Arnold Bennett Times Literary Supplement, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Rather like celibate life in Paris again. I dined at the club and read Macready's diary;. . .'Arnold Bennett William Charles Macready[diary]Print: Book
1900-1945'Bonar Law told him that "his sister had been a very great admirer", but that since this book she had "done with" him.'Miss Law Arnold BennettPretty Lady, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'...an article of his in the Daily News on 21 November, blaming Liberal leadership, produced from Asquith himself "a polite letter of self - justification"'. Herbert Asquith Arnold Bennettarticle in the 'Daily News'Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'On the terrace in the evening he would read Plato aloud, especially the "Phaedo", the final pages of which never failed to move him to tears. To the end of her life Elin...Lord Alfred Milner PlatoPhaedoPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'When her novels were finished, she would take them up herself to Gerald Duckworth at 3, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. She was by this time on extremely cordial terms ...Elinor Glyn Elinor Glyn[novels]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Marjory Todd read [the books of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton and Amy le Feuvre but felt later that] "I would not now willingly expose a child of mine to the morbid re...Marjory Todd Amy Le Feuvre[pious novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'Marjory Todd read [the books of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton and Amy le Feuvre but felt later that] "I would not now willingly expose a child of mine to the morbid re...Marjory Todd Hesba Stretton[pious novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'Marjory Todd read [the books of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton and Amy le Feuvre but felt later that] "I would not now willingly expose a child of mine to the morbid re...Marjory Todd Mrs O.F. Walton[pious novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'Marjory Todd read [the books of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton and Amy le Feuvre but felt later that] "I would not now willingly expose a child of mine to the morbid re...Marjory Todd Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1900-1945'Marjory Todd read [the books of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton and Amy le Feuvre but felt later that] "I would not now willingly expose a child of mine to the morbid re...Marjory Todd Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1900-1945'Marjory Todd read [the books of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton and Amy le Feuvre but felt later that] "I would not now willingly expose a child of mine to the morbid re...Marjory Todd Lewis CarrollAlice in WonderlandPrint: Book
1900-1945'Marjory Todd read [the books of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton and Amy le Feuvre but felt later that] "I would not now willingly expose a child of mine to the morbid re...Marjory Todd Frederick Marryat[unknown]Print: Book


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