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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'[Sydney] Cockerell [...] busied himself with sending "The Farmer's Bride" to everyone he could think of [...] Wilfred Scawen Blunt [...] found the situations in Charlott...A. E. Housman Charlotte MewThe Farmer's BridePrint: Book
1900-1945'In 1916 one of the tasks of the second Mrs Hardy was to read aloud in the evenings at their Dorchester home, Max Gate, to the old great man whom she so carefully tended....Florence Hardy Charlotte MewThe Farmer's BridePrint: Book
1900-1945Penelope Fitzgerald relates how, during Charlotte Mew's stay at his home in December 1918, Thomas Hardy 'read some of his own poems to her, and she read him something whi...Thomas Hardy Thomas HardypoemsUnknown
1900-1945Penelope Fitzgerald relates how, during Charlotte Mew's stay at his home in December 1918, Thomas Hardy 'read some of his own poems to her, and she read him something whi...Charlotte Mew Charlotte Mew"Saturday Market"Unknown
1900-1945'Siegfried Sassoon [...] bought [Sydney] Cockerell the first number of [Harold] Monro's new shilling magazine, "The Monthly Chapbook". On the last page was Charlotte [Mew...Siegfried Sassoon Charlotte Mew"Sea Love"Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Siegfried Sassoon [...] bought [Sydney] Cockerell the first number of [Harold] Monro's new shilling magazine, "The Monthly Chapbook". On the last page was Charlotte [Mew...Sydney Cockerell Charlotte Mew"Sea Love"Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Siegfried Sassoon [...] bought [Sydney] Cockerell the first number of [Harold] Monro's new shilling magazine, "The Monthly Chapbook". On the last page was Charlotte [Mew...Thomas Hardy Charlotte Mew"Sea Love"Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Louis Untermeyer [an American poet] [...] had [...] been carried away by "Madeleine[in Church]" when Siegfried Sassoon read it to him [in 1920]'.Siegfried Sassoon Charlotte Mew"Madeleine in Church"Unknown
1900-1945'Over the New Year [1922] [...] [Charlotte Mew] went down to Cambridge and, as a particular treat, Sydney [Cockerell, Mew's friend, and Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum...Charlotte Mew BrontelettersManuscript: Letter
1900-1945'In the summer [of 1926] [...] [Charlotte Mew and her sister Caroline Frances Ann] were both reading [italics]Gentlemen Prefer Blondes[end italics]'.Charlotte Mew Anita LoosGentlemen Prefer BlondesPrint: Book
1900-1945'In the summer [of 1926] [...] [Charlotte Mew and her sister Caroline Frances Ann] were both reading [italics]Gentlemen Prefer Blondes[end italics]'.Caroline Frances Anne Mew Anita LoosGentlemen Prefer BlondesPrint: Book
1900-1945While her terminally ill sister Anne was staying at a nursing home in Priory Road, West Hampstead, Charlotte Mew 'came every day with novels to read aloud and amuse them ...Charlotte Mew David GarnettGo She MustPrint: Book
1900-1945Er kehrt zum Vater wenn er die Erbs?nde verneint [...] Der Raum enth?lt in Nebeneinader was nur in zeitlicher Nacheinander erlebt werden kann [...] Gravitation, Symbo...James Joyce Otto Weinginer?ber die letzten DingePrint: Book
1900-1945After Thomas Hardy's death on 11 January 1928, his literary executor Sydney Cockerell 'asked Florence [Hardy] to read aloud to him, chapter by chapter, the manuscript of ...Florence Hardy Thomas HardyMemoirsManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945After Thomas Hardy's death on 11 January 1928, his literary executor Sydney Cockerell 'found a piece of paper on which Hardy had copied out "Fin de Fete" [by Charlotte Me...Thomas Hardy Charlotte Mew"Fin de Fete"Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'That same night, in a perfect, clear, still moonlight, I lay in a tent, obsessed by insomnia... And I will interpolate that, for myself, I had been reading, actually, ...Ford Madox Ford Stephen CraneThe Red badge of couragePrint: Book
1900-1945'Bennett needed a guide when he travelled abroad - and his Florentine Journal is touchingly full of his delightful efforts to see and understand all, through his Baedeker...Arnold Bennett Karl Baedeker[guidebook on Florence]Print: Book
1900-1945'on his eighth birthday, 27 February 1920, an ox-cart drew up outside Everleas Lodge with a present for him - a huge parcel of books. His father had bought him a complete...Lawrence Durrell William Makepeace Thackeray[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'on his eighth birthday, 27 February 1920, an ox-cart drew up outside Everleas Lodge with a present for him - a huge parcel of books. His father had bought him a complete...Lawrence Durrell Robert Smith Surtees[probably] Jorrocks's Jaunts and JollitiesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Kipling had now been supplemented with Henty, Ballantyne, Rider Haggard and John Buchan, all with their own tales of imperial derring-do to tell theimpressionable young...Lawrence Durrell Rudyard KiplingKimPrint: Book


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