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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'I have the complete text of "The Isle" in my possession.[...]. The short passage [on Giovanni de Procida, 13th century Sicilian doctor and instigator of the Sicilian Ves...Joseph Conrad Norman DouglasThe Isle of TyphoeusManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'The book ["Siren Land"]'s certain to be well noticed -- maybe attacked too; but that's no harm. I've been delighted. There are mighty fine things there.' Joseph Conrad Norman DouglasSiren LandPrint: Book
1900-1945'This ["Fountains in the Sand"] is first rate. I have seldom read prose d'une si belle tonalité.' Hence follow 23 lines of praise and constructive commentary. Joseph Conrad Norman DouglasFountains in the Sand: Rambles among the Oases of ...Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'like any bright young intellectual of his day, he was greatly influenced by Freud and writers on sex, such as Havelock Ellis and Norman Haire, who had taken their cue fr...Lawrence Durrell Norman Haire[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849H. J. Jackson notes 1818 letter from S. T. Coleridge to Joseph Henry Green in which, "having mentioned Novalis's Heinrich von Ofterdingen, [Coleridge] says, '(Your short ...Joseph Henry Green Novalis Heinrich von Ofterdingen (vol 2)Print: Book
1900-1945'You ask me whether I prefer a long letter or a short letter. I prefer a long letter to a short letter. No, I am not reading Shakespeare just at present. I am readi...Maurice Baring O. HenryHeart of the WestPrint: Book
1900-1945'My literature has been “The Pit”, Frank Norris’s wheat hoarding story, and the two books of riff-raff, very tangy, cynical and amusing, by O. Henry. One story, "Roads of...Edmund Blunden O. Henry (pseud)Roads of DestinyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Lunched alone at the hotel, reading with indecent hilarity O. Henry's "Gentle Grafter", as good short stories as you want; almost worthy to rank with Maupassant, Kipling...Ronald Storrs O. Henry (pseud)The Gentle GrafterPrint: Book
1900-1945'Wrote up, finished O. Henry's "Cabbages and Kings" (an inferior S. American "South Wind" but good) and some more G. [Geoffrey] Scott. Bed 10.'Ronald Storrs O. Henry (pseud)Cabbages and KingsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Eleanor in great pain. Very brave but collapsed—throat ghastly. O Henry ... no good as a pick-me-up. Tried gramophone—better ... One feels so isolated all alone wi...Mary Franeis Butts O. Henry (pseud)[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945‘We make another sally today … I have the parcel, and the letters and J. Oxenham’s books … "The V.[Vision] Splendid" contains several real poems: those indeed which y...Wilfred Owen O. Henry (pseud. Willam Sydney PorterunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'In the 1920s Janet Htitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshlves of an orphanage, which included a huge collection of "drunken father deathbed ...Janet Hitchman O.F. WaltonChristie's Old OrganPrint: Book
1900-1945'In the 1920s Janet Hitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshlves of an orphanage, which included a huge collection of "drunken father deathbed c...Janet Hitchman O.F. WaltonA Peep Behind the ScenesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Stayed in all yesterday in crashing rain, and was busy at something all day till 1 at night, except reading "World" on run-away racehorse and pigeonshooting at lunch. Fr...John Ruskin Octave FeuilletLa Petite ComtessePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have read - given way to reading - two books by Octave Mirbeau - and after them I see dreadfully and finally, (1) that the French are a filthy people, (2) that their c...Katherine Mansfield Octave Mirbeau Print: Book
1900-1945'I have read - given way to reading - two books by Octave Mirbeau - and after them I see dreadfully and finally, (1) that the French are a filthy people, (2) that their c...Katherine Mansfield Octave Mirbeau Print: Book
1900-1945'March 11 [1914]
Joined Hampstead Library £1..5.
Books read March [1914:] Mrs Sewell
His Grace of Osmond
Helen Keller Out of the...		Harriet Bickersteth Cook Octavia HillThe Life of Octavia Hill as Told in Her LettersPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Octavius Gilchrist, 5 September 1821, acknowledges receipt and reading of three pamphlets (by Gilchrist) relating to Bowles-Pope controversy.George Gordon Lord Byron Octavius GilchristpamphletsPrint: Pamphlet
1900-1945'I've read " Petersburg Tales". Phew! That is something! [...] That work is genuine, undeniable, constructed and inhabited. It hath [sic] foundation and life.'Joseph Conrad Olive GarnettThe Petersburg TalesPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"Mary Brown ... wrote in her Memories that "'I asked a Lancashire working woman what she thought of Story of an African Farm and a strange expression came over her face...anon Olive SchreinerThe Story of an African FarmPrint: Book


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