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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'Bernard Kops, the son of an immigrant leather worker, had a special understanding of the transition from from autodidact culture to Bohemia to youth culture, because he ...Bernard Kops Thomas Stearns Eliot'The Waste Land'Print: Book
1900-1945'After Stalingrad, [Bernard Kops] immersed himself in Russian literature. A GI dating his sister introduced him to Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson'.Bernard Kops [unknown][Russian literature]Print: Book
1900-1945'After Stalingrad, [Bernard Kops] immersed himself in Russian literature. A GI dating his sister introduced him to Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson'.Bernard Kops Walt Whitman[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'After Stalingrad, [Bernard Kops] immersed himself in Russian literature. A GI dating his sister introduced him to Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson'.Bernard Kops Emily Dickinson[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'"Reflection: It is presumably a bad thing to look through articles, reviews, etc. to find one's own name. Yet I often do." And that same week, she is agonizing over "one...Virginia Woolf Times Literary Supplement, ThePrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Beaverbrook vetted all the politics, finding only two or three small slips in the entire novel, which is a tribute to his briefing and to Bennett's attention.'Lord Beaverbrook Arnold BennettLord RaingoPrint: Book
1900-1945'There Bennett worked on his novel, read Dreiser and Balzac, . . .'Arnold Bennett Theodore Dreiser Print: Book
1900-1945'Although Bennett had reservations about the book, he had enjoyed it, and had at once written to tell his friend so'. Arnold Bennett H.G. WellsThe World of William ClissoldPrint: Book
1900-1945'D. H. Lawrence . . . reviewed the novel [The World of William Clissold by Wells] in the "Calendar" of October 1926, in a piece which Bennett says shows his "childish and...Arnold Bennett D.H. Lawrence[review of H.G. Wells's "The World of William Clis...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The programme on the works of J.M. Barrie was then considered, John Ridges reading a paper on the subject & Mrs Kaye Miss Marriage & WS Rowntree & P Kaye giving part rea...John Ridges John Ridges[paper on J.M. Barrie]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'On 9 February he read in the paper news that turned his mind from the future to the past. His old friend George Sturt was dead.'Arnold Bennett  Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'it was many, many years before any of us was able to look with unprejudiced eyes at anything Scotch again. Always excepting Scott's novels, which we loved.'Gwen Raverat Walter Scott[novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'He travelled alone, by train, . . . reading "The Brothers Karamazov" for the fourth time'.Arnold Bennett Fyodor DostoyevskyBrothers Karamazov, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Bennett had seen a placard announcing its publication in Cassell's "Storyteller" magazine on Victoria Station just before his departure for Sicily in April.'Arnold Bennett  Print: Advertisement, Poster
1900-1945'Bennett, Dorothy, and the Board of Sloane Productions Ltd read all the notices the next day and found them satisfactory.'Arnold Bennett  Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'There is a pleasant story of how [Aunt Cara] once set a Jebb niece to read "Paradise Lost" aloud to herself and her sister Aunt Polly, in order to improve Aunt Polly's m...[unknown] Jebb John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1900-1945'There were some problems which I never solved in all my youth. For instance, there was Gloucester's Natural Son in King Lear. For if bad Edmund was a Natural Son, presum...Gwen Raverat William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
1900-1945'Every time I re-read "Emma" I see more clearly that we must be somehow related to the Knightleys of Donwell Abbey; both dear Mr Knightley and Mr John Knightley seem so f...Gwen Raverat Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1900-1945'He even found time to be as courteous and helpful as ever to old friends, reading through, for instance, William Rothenstein's 'Men and Memories in typescript, with many...Arnold Bennett William RothensteinMen and MemoriesManuscript: typescript
1900-1945'He returned to London to . . . Somerset Maugham's "Cakes and Ale", which he admired . . .'Arnold Bennett W Somerset MaughamCakes and AlePrint: Book


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