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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'The poet Clare Cameron, born Winifred Wells to a London blacksmith, was a 15s a week clerk given to artistic ecstasies... She ate cheap lunches at Lyons to save money fo...Clare Cameron Karl Marx[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'The poet Clare Cameron, born Winifred Wells to a London blacksmith, was a 15s a week clerk given to artistic ecstasies... She ate cheap lunches at Lyons to save money fo...Clare Cameron Henri MurgerScenes de la BohemePrint: Book
1900-1945'[Charlie] Lahr lent [Bonar] Thompson Andre Gide and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man". "It was wonderful for me to feel that I belonged to the elect who had read...Bonar Thompson James JoyceA Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Charlie] Lahr lent [Bonar] Thompson Andre Gide and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man". "It was wonderful for me to feel that I belonged to the elect who had read...Bonar Thompson Andre Gide[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'[Ethel] Mannin was firmly rooted in the autodidact tradition. In her father's library she enjoyed Gissing and Wells, "Adam Bede" and "The Cloister and the Hearth". A Cla...Ethel Mannin George Gissing[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'[Ethel] Mannin was firmly rooted in the autodidact tradition. In her father's library she enjoyed Gissing and Wells, "Adam Bede" and "The Cloister and the Hearth". A Cla...Ethel Mannin Herbert George Wells[unknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Ethel] Mannin was firmly rooted in the autodidact tradition. In her father's library she enjoyed Gissing and Wells, "Adam Bede" and "The Cloister and the Hearth". A Cla...Ethel Mannin George EliotAdam BedePrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James, in 1 November 1906 letter to Joseph Conrad, writes of having just read and admired "The Mirror of the Sea".Henry James Joseph ConradThe Mirror of the SeaPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Ethel] Mannin was firmly rooted in the autodidact tradition. In her father's library she enjoyed Gissing and Wells, "Adam Bede" and "The Cloister and the Hearth". A Cla...Ethel Mannin Charles ReadeThe Cloister and the HearthPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Ethel] Mannin was firmly rooted in the autodidact tradition. In her father's library she enjoyed Gissing and Wells, "Adam Bede" and "The Cloister and the Hearth". A Cla...Ethel Mannin Virginia WoolfOrlandoPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Ethel] Mannin was firmly rooted in the autodidact tradition. In her father's library she enjoyed Gissing and Wells, "Adam Bede" and "The Cloister and the Hearth". A Cla...Ethel Mannin James JoyceUlyssesPrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to H. G. Wells, 8 November 1906: 'I came back last night from five days in London to find your so generously-given "America," and I have done nothing today bu...Henry James H. G. WellsThe Future in AmericaPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Ethel] Mannin was firmly rooted in the autodidact tradition. In her father's library she enjoyed Gissing and Wells, "Adam Bede" and "The Cloister and the Hearth". A Cla...Ethel Mannin Gertrude Stein[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Soon Pritchett was reading Penny Poets editions of "Paradise Regained", Wordsworth's "Prelude", Cowper, and Coleridge. He formulated plans to become Poet Laureate by age...Victor Sawdon Pritchett John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: Book
1900-1945'Soon Pritchett was reading Penny Poets editions of "Paradise Regained", Wordsworth's "Prelude", Cowper, and Coleridge. He formulated plans to become Poet Laureate by age...Victor Sawdon Pritchett William WordsworthPrelude, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Soon Pritchett was reading Penny Poets editions of "Paradise Regained", Wordsworth's "Prelude", Cowper, and Coleridge. He formulated plans to become Poet Laureate by age...Victor Sawdon Pritchett William Cowper Print: Book
1900-1945'Soon Pritchett was reading Penny Poets editions of "Paradise Regained", Wordsworth's "Prelude", Cowper, and Coleridge. He formulated plans to become Poet Laureate by age...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
1900-1945'[Pritchett] was... unprepared for the intimidating greatness of Ruskin's "Modern Painters"... "There was too much to know. I discovered that Ruskin was not so very many ...Victor Sawdon Pritchett John RuskinModern PaintersPrint: Book
1900-1945'as an office boy, Pritchett tried to read widely and dreamt of an escape to Bohemia. But his knowledge of the Latin Quarter was gleaned not from Flaubert, only from thir...Victor Sawdon Pritchett George du Maurier[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'as an office boy, Pritchett tried to read widely and dreamt of an escape to Bohemia. But his knowledge of the Latin Quarter was gleaned not from Flaubert, only from thir...Victor Sawdon Pritchett W.J. Locke[unknown]Print: Book


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