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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
 
1900-1945His [Norman Douglas's] intention is to offer his MS [" Siren Land"] to Mr Methuen. It is jolly good--a distinguished and interesting pice of work.' Joseph Conrad Norman DouglasSiren LandManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'So I will only tell you that the 1st instalment of the novel ["The Holy Mountain"] is brilliantly effective.'Joseph Conrad Stephen ReynoldsThe Holy MountainPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Charlotte Mew to Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott, 12 May 1914: '"Looking through some of Ella [D'Arcy]'s old letters [...] I find she wrote to me 3 about the Requiescat ... sh...Ella D'Arcy Charlotte Mew"Requiescat"Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'In 1910, when Alfred Noyes's "Collected Poems" came out [...] [Charlotte Mew] read his "The Old Sceptic" and reflected that as far as sentiment went, she might have writ...Charlotte Mew Alfred Noyes"The Old Sceptic"Print: Book
1900-1945'[Around 1912-13, when she began her association with Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott] Charlotte [Mew] [...] was reading Flaubert as always, Chekhov, Conrad and Verlaine'. Charlotte Mew Gustave Flaubert Print: Book
1900-1945'[Around 1912-13, when she began her association with Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott] Charlotte [Mew] [...] was reading Flaubert as always, Chekhov, Conrad and Verlaine'. Charlotte Mew Anton Chekhov Print: Book
1900-1945'[Around 1912-13, when she began her association with Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott] Charlotte [Mew] [...] was reading Flaubert as always, Chekhov, Conrad and Verlaine'. Charlotte Mew Joseph Conrad Print: Unknown
1900-1945'[Around 1912-13, when she began her association with Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott] Charlotte [Mew] [...] was reading Flaubert as always, Chekhov, Conrad and Verlaine'. Charlotte Mew Paul Verlaine Print: Book
1900-1945'[May Sinclair] read [Freud] in German as soon as "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life" and the "Three Essays on Sexuality"were available.'May Sinclair Sigmund FreudThe Psychopathology of Everyday LifePrint: Book
1900-1945'[May Sinclair] read [Freud] in German as soon as "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life" and the "Three Essays on Sexuality" were available.'May Sinclair Sigmund FreudThree Essays on SexualityPrint: Book
1900-1945Charlotte Mew 'felt stunned' by May Sinclair's novel "The Combined Maze" (published February 1913), telling Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott, '"it has completely got and kept h...Charlotte Mew May SinclairThe Combined MazePrint: Book
1900-1945'In the early spring of 1913 Sappho [i.e. Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott, nicknamed after a poem she had authored] wrote in her diary: '"When Charlotte [Mew] came [to Mrs Da...Charlotte Mew Charlotte Mew"The Farmer's Bride"Unknown
1900-1945'[Charlotte Mew's poem] "The Forest Road" is almost impossible to follow; Dr Scott [husband of Mew's friend Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott] read it and said it was so deeply ...Dr Scott Charlotte Mew"The Forest Road"Unknown
1900-1945'[Alida Klementaski] and Harold Monro first met at a poets' club dinner at the Cafe Monico on 14 March 1913. The subject was the nineties poet John Davidson [...] Alida,...Alida Klementaski John DavidsonunknownUnknown
1900-1945'Alida [Klementaski], like Mrs [Catherine] Dawson Scott, had read "The Farmer's Bride" in 1912, and had not forgotten it.' Alida Klementaski Charlotte Mew"The Farmer's Bride"Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Alida [Klementaski], like Mrs [Catherine] Dawson Scott, had read "The Farmer's Bride" in 1912, and had not forgotten it.' Catherine Dawson Scott Charlotte Mew"The Farmer's Bride"Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Alida [Klementaski] bought for thirty shillings a West Highland terrier which she had seen advertised in "Exchange and Mart".'Alida Klementaski Exchange and MartPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'In the July of 1918 a copy of "The Farmer's Bride" arrived in [Sydney] Cockerell's vast daily post, with a stiff little note from Charlotte [Mew] [...] No worry [...] ab...Sydney Cockerell Charlotte MewThe Farmer's BridePrint: Book
1900-1945'[Sydney] Cockerell [...] busied himself with sending "The Farmer's Bride" to everyone he could think of [...] Wilfred Scawen Blunt [...] found the situations in Charlott...Wilfred Scawen Blunt Charlotte MewThe Farmer's BridePrint: Book
1900-1945'[Sydney] Cockerell [...] busied himself with sending "The Farmer's Bride" to everyone he could think of [...] Wilfred Scawen Blunt [...] found the situations in Charlott...Siegfried Sassoon Charlotte MewThe Farmer's BridePrint: Book


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