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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'Until then, all the books I possessed had been children's annuals and the like. Except for "Robinson Crusoe", very few of the children's classics had come my way. I had ...Norman Nicholson Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1900-1945'We had met Dickens before, but only "The Old Curiosity Shop" and "The Chimes", both of which, in their mean little school editions, were enough to sour a boy against the...Norman Nicholson Charles DickensThe Old Curiosity ShopPrint: Book
1900-1945'We had met Dickens before, but only "The Old Curiosity Shop" and "The Chimes", both of which, in their mean little school editions, were enough to sour a boy against the...Norman Nicholson Charles DickensThe ChimesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mr Wilson had no more patience than we had with Little Nell and the atrocious Trotty Veck. He shovelled the sentiment and the trushery behind him, and started straight o...Walter Wilson Charles DickensThe Pickwick PapersPrint: Book
1900-1945'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the cover [school prize details]... It was the first of ...Walter Wilson Charles DickensGreat ExpectationsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the cover [school prize details]... It was the first of ...Norman Nicholson Charles DickensThe Pickwick PapersPrint: Book
1900-1945'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the cover [school prize details]... It was the first of ...Norman Nicholson Charles DickensBarnaby RudgePrint: Book
1900-1945'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the cover [school prize details]... It was the first of ...Norman Nicholson Charles DickensDombey and SonPrint: Book
1900-1945'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the cover [school prize details]... It was the first of ...Norman Nicholson Charles DickensNicholas NicklebyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the cover [school prize details]... It was the first of ...Norman Nicholson Charles DickensGreat ExpectationsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mr Wilson introduced us to another author - Victor Hugo... in 1925, "Les Miserables" gripped us even more than "Pickwick". Mr Wilson must have abridged it ruthlessly, bu...Walter Wilson Victor HugoLes MiserablesPrint: Book
1900-1945'When, years later, I first read "Lady Chatterley's Lover", I did not feel that I was being liberated into a new frankness of manhood: I felt that I was returning to baby...Norman Nicholson D.H. LawrenceLady Chatterley's LoverPrint: Book
1900-1945'The beautiful and disturbing feminine shapes which I sometimes saw in the photographic section of "The Sketch" and "The Tatler", turning over the pages furtively in the ...Norman Nicholson [n/a]The SketchPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The beautiful and disturbing feminine shapes which I sometimes saw in the photographic section of "The Sketch" and "The Tatler", turning over the pages furtively in the ...Norman Nicholson [n/a]The TatlerPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'So that, whatever may have been its deeper cause, the love which filled my imagination was of a kind that seemed, to me, to have little to do with what I meant by sex. "...Norman Nicholson Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1900-1945'So that, whatever may have been its deeper cause, the love which filled my imagination was of a kind that seemed, to me, to have little to do with what I meant by sex. "...Norman Nicholson Thomas HardyUnder the Greenwood TreePrint: Book
1900-1945'So that, whatever may have been its deeper cause, the love which filled my imagination was of a kind that seemed, to me, to have little to do with what I meant by sex. "...Norman Nicholson [n/a]The Woman's WeeklyPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'So that, whatever may have been its deeper cause, the love which filled my imagination was of a kind that seemed, to me, to have little to do with what I meant by sex. "...Norman Nicholson John Keats[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'So that, whatever may have been its deeper cause, the love which filled my imagination was of a kind that seemed, to me, to have little to do with what I meant by sex. "...Norman Nicholson Alfred, Lord TennysonMaud [and other poems?]Print: Book
1900-1945'Tom... introduced me to Poe's "Tales", to my first detective stories and to the early novels of H.G. Wells.'Norman Nicholson Edgar Allan Poe[Tales]Print: Book


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