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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[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Noel CowardI'll Leave it to YouPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding Noel CowardRat Trap, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding Noel CowardVortex, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding Noel CowardFallen AngelsPrint: Book
1900-1945'At 8pm, there is a very good St George's Day concert by D-Block. They read extracts from the works of Shakespeare, Rupert Brooke and Kipling, as well as Noel Coward's "C...prisoners of warNoel CowardCavalcadePrint: Book
1900-1945'Read Noel Coward's Present Indicative . . . very interesting.'Vere Hodgson Noel CowardPresent IndicativePrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Noel StreatfeildHouse in Cornwall, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue: 25.3.36
    Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the chair.
1. Minutes of last read + approved.

[...]

...		Rosamund Wallis Nora WalnThe House of ExilePrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding Norbert DavisRendezvous with FearPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Books read] August [1914:] By waters of Germany.
Queenie's whim.
Timothy's quest.
Basil Lyndhurst.
Highway of Fate.
Lamp Lighter
Boo...		Harriet Bickersteth Cook Norma Octavia LorimerBy the Waters of GermanyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have read the story. It's marvellous in a way but we must talk it over.'Joseph Conrad Norman DouglasunidentifiedManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'[A. A.] Milne ... [became] a decided anti-militarist after reading Norman Angell's "The Great Illusion" (1910) ...'Alan Alexander Milne Norman AngellThe Great IllusionPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding Norman CollinsAnnaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mowed lawn all morning with Dad. Then boked down town. Then biked round and round the lawn! ... Supper and after short stroll came back and finished "The Red Planet", pe...Guy Mainwaring Knocker Norman CrossThe Red Planet and Other PoemsPrint: Book
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'Write your fiction in the tone of this very excellent article if you like. Place it in S. Italy if that will help.'Joseph Conrad Norman DouglasThe Island of TyphoeusManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I sent about a fortnight ago, three of your papers to Austin Harrison [...] the present editor of the E[nglish] R[eview]. [...] The "[The]Headland of Minerva" and the "...Joseph Conrad Norman DouglasThe Caves of Siren Land (and 2 other pieces cited ...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I've just read Nelson. It is very good. Some criticism can be made mainly on the point that you presuppose too much knowledge of facts in your readers. Still we shall t...Joseph Conrad Norman Douglasunknown Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Among texts discussed and quoted from in 1926 Commonplace Book of E. M. Forster is Norman Douglas, D. H. Lawrence and Maurice Magnus: A Plea for Better Manners (1924).Edward Morgan Forster Norman DouglasD. H. Lawrence and Maurice Magnus: A Plea for Bett...Print: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935-6) include quotation from Norman Douglas, Together, opening: 'How many avenues of delight are closed to the...Edward Morgan Forster Norman DouglasTogetherPrint: Book


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