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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 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 Rachel FieldAll This and Heaven TooPrint: Book
1900-1945'Oh, I like all kinds of books - historical, semi-biography, well written. I liked "How Green was My Valley": and "All this and Heaven Too" ....I must say I can't read no...Rachel FieldAll this and Heaven TooPrint: Book
1800-1849In a joking letter to her niece, Anna Austen, Jane Austen writes, 'Miss Jane Austen begs her best thanks may be conveyed to Mrs Hunter of Norwich [...] Miss Jane Austen's...Jane Austen Rachel HunterLady Maclairn, the Victim of VillainyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Margaret Wharton's parents were highly literate, and with their encouragement she entered a teaching training college in 1936, but they taught her nothing about sex: "Th...Margaret Wharton Radclyffe HallThe Well of LonelinessPrint: Book
1900-1945'I told Forster that I was prepared to stand absolutely for both the merits and the decency of the book.' [The Well of Loneliness]Arnold Bennett Radclyffe HallThe Well of LonelinessPrint: Book
1900-1945On the conclusion of the 'Well of Loneliness' case, I propose to devote an article to it in the Evening Standard. I need not tell you that I am anti-police.Arnold Bennett Radclyffe HallThe Well of LonelinessPrint: Book
1900-1945'November brought a peculiar police-court case, which made literary history, after Radclyffe Hall's novel, "The Well of Loneliness", had been suppressed for impropriety. ...Vera Brittain Radclyffe HallThe Well of LonelinessPrint: 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 Rafael SabatiniBellarionPrint: 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 Rafael SabatiniCaptain BloodPrint: 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 Rafael SabatiniScaramouchePrint: 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 Rafael SabatiniFortune's FoolPrint: 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 Rafael SabatiniLost King, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just been reading the record of a dangerous voyage, [italics] Malte Laurids Brigg [end italics]. Yet Rilke returned safely. I have seen a photo of him in a black ...Antonia White Rainer Maria RilkeNotebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'It is strange that in poetry, when I was eleven, I had what I can only call my first revelation from which I emerged dazed, unable to fit the two worlds together. It has...Antonia White Rainer Maria RilkeNotebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'When I read Rilke I seem to understand her ['Roberta's] death... she really had carried it about with her, nourished it, achieved it' [alluding to story about Rilke's de...Antonia White Rainer Maria Rilke[works]Print: Book
1900-1945'Lunched with Ralph [Milbanke]. He has decided at last to publish the great Byron secret, and has drawn up the case against Byron and Mrs. Leigh in the form of a book cal...Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Ralph MilbankeAstarte: A Fragment of Truth Concerning Lord ByronManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 7 Marlborough Avenue, 21.XI.44
    A. G. Joselin in the chair.

[...]

2. The minutes of the last mee...		[unnamed member[s] of the XII Book Club] Ralph Smith[letters]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22, Cintra Avenue, 16th December 1941 F. E. Pollard in the Chair.
Before beginning our meeting the Chairman referred to the loss the Club has ...		Howard Smith Ralph Smith[Letters written from Salonika]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22, Cintra Avenue, 16th December 1941 F. E. Pollard in the Chair.
Before beginning our meeting the Chairman referred to the loss the Club has ...		Howard Smith Ralph Smith[Letters written from a prison camp in Germany]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, c.October 1835: 'Did you ever hear of Dr Wardlaw's treatise upon infant baptism? It is very clearly and forcibly written, -- ...Elizabeth Barrett Ralph WardlawA Dissertation on the Scriptural Authority, Nature...Print: Book


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