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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'I think "The Genius" is a pretty good book.' Arnold Bennett Theodore DreiserThe GeniusPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Pardon my forwardness, but I must tell you I think that 'Streaks' is another what-I-call-a-book. In fact I should say it is better than 'Impressions'. Arnold Bennett Ethel SmythImpressions that RemainedPrint: Book
1900-1945I am glad to see that today you give some figures to show what the coal strike is really about. The public seldom knows what a strike is about. . . No paper gives impart...Arnold Bennett ExpressPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'This is a very good number. [New Statesman] The Wells review seems most just, but I haven’t yet finished the book. [The Soul of a Bishop]'Arnold Bennett H.G. WellsThe Soul of a BishopPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have read 100 pages of 'L. Leuwen'. [Lucien Leuwen] It is exceedingly fine, but I don’t yet class it with 'La Chartreuse'.[La Chartreuse de Parme]Arnold Bennett Henri Beyle [Stendhal]Lucien LeuwenPrint: Book
1900-1945'[whilst Mrs Ward suffered her last illness] her son and her daughters took turns in reading to her the poets that she loved'.Mary Augusta Ward  Print: Book
1900-1945'I have read 100 pages of 'L. Leuwen'. [Lucien Leuwen] It is exceedingly fine, but I don’t yet class it with 'La Chartreuse'.[La Chartreuse de Parme]Arnold Bennett Henri Beyle [Stendhal]La Chartreuse de ParmePrint: Book
1900-1945'[letter from Frederic Harrison to Mrs Ward] I am one of those to whom your book ["The Case of Richard Meynell"] specially appeals, as I know so much of the literature, t...Frederic Harrison Mary Augusta WardCase of Richard Meynell, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'[letter from Frederic Harrison to Mrs Ward] I am one of those to whom your book ["The Case of Richard Meynell"] specially appeals, as I know so much of the literature, t...Frederic Harrison George Eliot [pseud.]Adam BedePrint: Book
1900-1945'[letter from Frederic Harrison to Mrs Ward] I am one of those to whom your book ["The Case of Richard Meynell"] specially appeals, as I know so much of the literature, t...Frederic Harrison Essays and ReviewsPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Having asked Lord Rosebery for a Preface to her "England's Effort"] Knowing that he was never strong, she fully expected a refusal, but found instead that he had alread...Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery Mary Augusta WardEngland's EffortPrint: proofs
1900-1945'Mrs Ward never allowed the springs of thought to grow dry for lack of reading. The one advantage that she gained from her short nights - for her hours of sleep were rare...Mary Augusta Ward  Print: Book
1900-1945'I should have read S.& H. ["Shops and Houses"] earlier, despite J. & P. , but I couldn’t get the book off Marguerite. Conjugal unpleasantness became so acute on the poi...Arnold Bennett Frank SwinnertonShops and HousesPrint: Book
1900-1945'[letter from Mrs Ward] I have been reading Bancroft this morning, and shall read G.O.T. tonight. We [italics] were [end italics] fools! - but really, I rather agree with...Mary Augusta Ward George BancroftHistory of the United States, from the Discovery o...Print: Book
1900-1945'[report by Mrs Ward of the library at her Passmore Edwards Settlement] boys were sitting hunched up over "Masterman Ready", or the ever-adored "Robinson Crusoe"; girls w...boys at the Passmore Edwards SettlementDaniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Stephen to Thoby Stephen, 2 November 1901: 'I have been reading Marlow [sic], and I was so much more impressed by him than I should be, that I read Cymbelin...Virginia Stephen Christopher MarloweDoctor FaustusPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Stephen to Thoby Stephen, 2 November 1901: 'I have been reading Marlow [sic], and I was so much more impressed by him than I should be, that I read Cymbelin...Virginia Stephen Christopher MarloweEdward IIPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Stephen to Thoby Stephen, 2 November 1901: 'I have been reading Marlow [sic], and I was so much more impressed by him than I should be, that I read Cymbelin...Virginia Stephen William ShakespeareCymbelinePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, 1 October 1905: 'We have had visitors for the last 4 weeks [...] I have written quite a lot [...] Also I have read a good deal,...Virginia Stephen eighteenth-century textsPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Virginia Stephen] was reading Walter Savage Landor's Pericles and Aspasia (1836), and writing, as was her habit during this time [Spring 1906], a description of her s...Virginia Stephen Walter Savage LandorPericles and AspasiaPrint: Book


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