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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
 
1850-1899 'My favourite masters & models: 1. Turgenev, a royal first (you must read 'On the Eve'?flawless I tell you. Bring back such books of mine as you have; I have others you...Arnold Bennett George MooreunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'My favourite masters & models: 1. Turgenev, a royal first (you must read 'On the Eve'?flawless I tell you. Bring back such books of mine as you have; I have others you ...Arnold Bennett Robert Louis StevensonunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Directly after breakfast, the 'Goodwife' and the Doctor evacuate this apartment, and retire up stairs to the drawing-room, a little place all fitted up like a lady's wor...Jane Baillie Welsh Unknown UnknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'A master's debate at school set me thinking, and I decided for myself as far as I could at that age. At 16 I joined the Under Thirty movement where I heard a debate on P...Dick ShepherdunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'She is a woman of the artisan class, aged about 35. She was dressed in a brown coat with a fur collar, and had a scarf on her head. With her she brought two blankets, tw... unknownunknownPrint: Book, Unknown
1850-1899'My sole solaces have been Dumas, & Nolan?s delightful companionship at Brussels.' Arnold Bennett Alexandre DumasunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Directly after breakfast, the 'Goodwife' and the Doctor evacuate this apartment, and retire up stairs to the drawing-room, a little place all fitted up like a lady's wor...Thomas Carlyle Unknown UnknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I reckon I can do something with Moore. . . I occupy the time of waiting in reading G.M. & making notes. The business has given me vague flitting shapes of ideas for ...Arnold Bennett George MooreunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I took up de Maupassant to inspire me into a new theme; got one in about 5 minutes, & in an hour had arrived at the details. But it is too new to work at tonight.' ...Arnold Bennett Guy de MaupassantunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Though I am the least superstitious of mortals and rhough I have read Freud and Dunne and treat dreams with the scientific detachment they advocate, for the life of me I... DunneunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Then B. went shopping while I lay on the divan and read Proust, which I continued to do most of the evening, except when I read Ellis's Sunlight on Parnassus" to B. whil...Marcel ProustunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Unconditional surrender. I don't think America will allow us to do anything different. I read the other day where Cordell Hull said there would be no peace talks, it wou...Cordell HullunknownPrint: Unknown
1700-1799[John Locke] "says it [is the] same faculty that invents judges".William Blake John LockeunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799"What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of Art? Why is the Bible more Entertaining and Instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are add...William Blake HomerunknownPrint: Book, Unknown
1850-1899'I am getting on very well with Ovid.'Robert Louis Stevenson OvidunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Hegel must either be frightfully clever, or a most egregious ass: I incline to the latter position.'Robert Louis Stevenson Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelunknownUnknown
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'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 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


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