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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'Its really good of you to have sent "Faith". Your magic never grows less; each of your prefaces is a gem and my enthusiasm is roused always to the highest pitch by your ...Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamFaithPrint: Book
1900-1945'[...] the volume ["Charity"] which on my first visit to London in many months I carried off home. From the first word of the wonderful preface to the last short sketch o...Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamCharityPrint: Book
1900-1945'That's why [an attack of gout] I did not write to thank you for your book ["A Hatchment"] (and the Ranee's) ["My Life in Sarawak"] as soon as I ought to have done. Upon ...Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamA HatchmentPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am just fresh from the second reading of your vol ["Brought Forward"]'. Hence follow twelve lines of admiring comment.Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamBrought ForwardPrint: Book
1900-1945'Ever so many thanks too for the "Life and Miracles" which I have just read for the second time.There is no one but you to render so poignantly the pathetic and desperate...Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamA Brazilian Mystic, being the Life and Miracles of...Print: Book
1900-1945'What to me [...] seems most wonderful in the "Cartagena" book is its inextinguishable vitality, the unchanged strength of feeling, steadfastness of sympathies and force ...Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamCartagena and the Banks of the SinuPrint: Book
1900-1945'I would have written to you before about my delight in "The Conquest of Granada" if it had not been for the beastly swollen wrist which prevented me from holding the pen...Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamThe Conquest of New Granada, being the Life of Gon...Print: Book
1900-1945'At the foot of the bed was an oak "library table" [...]. There were several piles of books on it, W. W. Jacobs for light reading, de Maupassant, Flaubert, Galsworthy, Cu...Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham Print: 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 R.A.J. WallingMurder at the KeyholePrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then given up to the subject Gilbert & Sullivan's operas. Mr R.B. Graham read an able paper dealing with the subject in a most interesting & vivid way'R.B. Graham R.B. Graham[paper on Gilbert & Sullivan]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibility of getting cheap copies of The Dynasts. 1. Pianof...R.B. Graham R.B. Graham'Pious Atrocity, The'Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to the works of Laurence Housman. Most of the members had seen & heard Mr Housman recently so there is no need to give any personal d...R.B. Graham R.B. Graham[paper on Housman's 'Little Plays of St.Francis']Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Various anonymous essays by members of the Club were then read with the following titles and at the conclusion of the meeting whilst the authorship of some was quickly a...members of XII Book ClubR.B. GrahamIf Christianity had WonManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899"Read Lorna Doone in the evening and helped Mother in to bed."Agnes Blanche Hemming R.D. BlackmoreLorna DoonePrint: Book
1850-1899"Much interested in Lorna Doone. It is a truly romantic book."Agnes Blanche Hemming R.D. BlackmoreLorna DoonePrint: Book
1850-1899"Finished reading Lorna Doone and like it very much."Agnes Blanche Hemming R.D. BlackmoreLorna DoonePrint: Book
1850-1899"Read aloud to Maude from Lorna Doone. Very much taken with this little bit - 'the valley into which I gazed was fair with early promise, having shelter from the wind an...Agnes Blanche Hemming R.D. BlackmoreLorna DoonePrint: Book
1900-1945'Read "Lorna Doone" and loved it. Must try to get it next hols.'Hilary Spalding R.D. BlackmoreLorna DoonePrint: Book
1900-1945'An exception [to the intellectual triviality Glasser found at Oxford], far from generously recognised, was R.G. Collingwood in his luminous exposition of the proper busi...Ralph Glasser R.G. CollingwoodSpeculum Mentis, or the Map of KnowledgePrint: Book
1900-1945'In "Guns and Butter" by Bruce-Lockhart (written October 1938), he says: "To anyone who knows the East, it was already clear that, whoever won the war between Japan and C...Thomas Kitching R.H. Bruce-LockhartGuns and ButterPrint: Book


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