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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'February 12. J. [Middleton Murry] read the Tchehov [sic] aloud. I had read one of the stories myself and it seemed to me nothing. But read aloud it was a masterpiece. ...J. Middleton Murry Anton ChekhovunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945On p. 206 (last page of text) 'Read Novr 13th/19th 1903 L A W' in pencil manuscript. In addition, a bookplate on inside front cover: 'Laurence A. Waldron.' with a c...Laurence A Waldron Henry Austin DobsonFanny BurneyPrint: Book
1900-1945'On the flyleaf of her novel she quoted from V. Sackville-West's pastoral poem, "The Land", a verse which testified to her abiding sense of the Yorkshire that made her.'Winifred Holtby Vita Sackville-WestThe LandPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'When "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" appeared at the end of July 1935, Winifred reviewed it in "Time and Tide".'Winifred Holtby Thomas Edward LawrenceSeven Pillars of WisdomPrint: Book
1900-1945'But perhaps her most appropriate comment on the end of Lawrence's tormented life had been made the previous year in a review of Liddell Hart's "T.E. Lawrence in Arabia a...Winifred Holtby Liddell HartT.E. Lawrence in Arabia and AfterUnknown
1900-1945'She pinned it to her coat; and returned to London reading the 1349 closely-typed pages of St. John Ervine's recently completed biography of General Booth, "God's Soldier...Winifred Holtby St. John ErvineGod's SoldierPrint: Book
1900-1945'Let me say that the things that first made me love language and want to work [italics] in [end italics] it and [italics] for [end italics] it were nursery rhymes and fol...Dylan Thomas [Border Ballads]Print: Book
1900-1945'Let me say that the things that first made me love language and want to work [italics] in [end italics] it and [italics] for [end italics] it were nursery rhymes and fol...Dylan Thomas William BlakeSongs of InnocencePrint: Book
1900-1945'Let me say that the things that first made me love language and want to work [italics] in [end italics] it and [italics] for [end italics] it were nursery rhymes and fol...Dylan Thomas William Shakespeare Print: Book
1900-1945'Let me say that the things that first made me love language and want to work [italics] in [end italics] it and [italics] for [end italics] it were nursery rhymes and fol...Dylan Thomas BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, like eggs laid by tigers. They were imitations of anyth...Dylan Thomas Chums MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945' . . . as sentence follows sentence I marvel, and wonder, indeed, if the writer [Bruce Barton] is not himself an inspired seer and whether the spirit of the man he wri...Dora Seimons Bruce BartonThe Man Nobody KnowsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read about one book per day.'John H.S. Craig variousvariousPrint: Advertisement, Book, Form, Handbill, Newspaper, Poster, Serial / periodical, Unknown
1900-1945'My pal was a typical Cockney recidivist who sold fruit on a coster's barrow between convictions and went crook when sales dwindled to vanishing point... I was attracted ...anon Charles Dickens[works]Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Friday, 1st January, Completed my paper on Mazzini. Read: ?One Act Plays of today? 2nd vol. (Harrap) ?Autocrat of the Breakfast table? (O.W.Holmes).' Gerald Moore J.W. MarriottOne Act Plays of TodayPrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday, 2nd January, Letter from Neill at Grimsby, Ontario: no other address. Nothing for Mother. Read: ?Plain Tales from the Hills? (R.Kipling)'. Gerald Moore Rudyard KiplingPlain Tales from the HillsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thursday, 7th January, Offered Pat 19th January or 16th March for his friend?s lecture. Smith does not expect to leave for the Coast until about October. He expects to...Gerald Moore Niccolo MachiavelliHistory of FlorencePrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday, 9th January, Mother tells me Hanley is to write a thesis on ?An Unemployed Man in January 1926?. Talking with Mother re Cambridge Economics. Advertising is ...Gerald Moore Belfort BaxEssays on SocialismPrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday, 16th January, Left letter at Beechcroft for Milligan re continuance of Discussion Group through the summer. Also re donation from Club and Mr. Milligan?s dat...Gerald Moore J. Ramsay MacdonaldSocialism: Critical and ConstructivePrint: Book
1900-1945'Wednesday, 27th January, Smith spoke of having wished to be a school master. He would like, even now, to get a bursary to Oxford or Cambridge. We talked of the diffi...Gerald Moore Henrik IbsenPeer GyntPrint: Book


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