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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'We had a few business connections with Prague in pre-war days, and our customers' knowledge of English always impressed rue, and within the last year I have read three b... unknownTo sing with the AngelsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I only know from what I read, but the fact that the Nazis have to keep a huge Gestapo force inside Czech Territory is sufficient proof of the stubborn resistance put up ... unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1900-1945"The 'Straight from the Beach at Dunkirk' you mean? I ask you....To be quite candid I've never seen anything so ridiculous in all my life. Yesterday I read it in the pape... newspaperPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I got from my town head the idea that the world was made for us all and not for the few....so became a Socialist. But the war and its shocks and the good books I've read...William and Martha DoddAmbassador Dodd's DiaryPrint: Book
1900-1945'I got from my town head the idea that the world was made for us all and not for the few....so became a Socialist. But the war and its shocks and the good books I've read...Tiberius GYour M.PPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have perused his [Eden Philpott's] agreeable verse in February Pall Mall Mag. I think that while Halkett has done very well with the illustrations he has gone very mu...Arnold Bennett Eden PhillpottsunknownPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I have just been looking, with surprise & pleasure, at this week?s 'Woman'. It is really very good.' Arnold Bennett WomanPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1900-1945". . . you have helped to forward the sublime principles involved in the admirable chapter on the Parrot-woman in 'The Quintessence of Ibsenism'". Arnold Bennett G. B. ShawThe Quintessence of IbsenismPrint: Book
1900-1945'. . . I am charmed with a serial of mine now running with great ?clat & Reginald Cleaver?s illustrations, in a sheet entitled the "Golden Penny". To read the instalments...Arnold Bennett Arnold Bennett Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'If you have not read "The Believing Bishop" by Havergall Bates (whoever he may be) [George Allen] let me recommend it to you as a fine disturbing book'. Arnold Bennett Havergall BatesThe Believing BishopPrint: Book
1900-1945'This enclosed article is the third of yours that I have read. The first (about modelling) was about the most impersonal thing I ever came across. The second (spiders) ...Arnold Bennett Thomas Lloyd Humbertstone[article]Manuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'I perceive you couldn?t keep your new house out of the "Fortnightly"! This third article is the best yet. I have never seen so good an illustration of the scientific u...Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsAnticipationsPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I have not even yet made up my mind about Dickens, & I am glad that so far I have never expressed an opinion about him, except playfully, in print. I got fairly stuck i...Arnold Bennett Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have not even yet made up my mind about Dickens, & I am glad that so far I have never expressed an opinion about him, except playfully, in print. I got fairly stuck i...Arnold Bennett Charles DickensThe Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick ClubPrint: Book
1900-1945'Lately I have been reading Wordsworth with joy, for almost the first time. "Michael" quite overcame me by its perfect simplicity & power. I have read it about ten time...Arnold Bennett William Wordsworth'Michael'Print: Book
1900-1945'I note lately the evidence of an extraordinary activity on your part. Perhaps you have observed how difficult it is to pick up a decent magazine without You in it. I t...Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsunknownPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I note lately the evidence of an extraordinary activity on your part. Perhaps you have observed how difficult it is to pick up a decent magazine without You in it. I t...Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsunknownPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I think the article on Sir John Gorst is able & shows a sufficient grasp of the subject; the tone of it also seems to me to be right . . . . As it stands, I think littl...Arnold Bennett Thomas Lloyd HumberstoneCoventryManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'I think the article on Sir John Gorst is able & shows a sufficient grasp of the subject; the tone of it also seems to me to be right . . . . As it stands, I think littl...Arnold Bennett Thomas Lloyd Humberstonearticle on Sir John GorstManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'I have read [The First Men on the Moon] in Strand, & hasten to insult & annoy you by stating that the last two instalments are among the very best things you have done. ...Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsThe First Men on the MoonPrint: Serial / periodical


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