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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
 
1900-1945Friday 2 April 1937: ''Maynard is reading The Years. & is enthusiastic.'John Maynard Keynes Virginia WoolfThe YearsPrint: Book
1900-1945'In 1937 she was having "a heavenly time" reading Montherlant, and writing a piece on him for the "New Statesman".'Elizabeth Bowen Henry Millon de Montherlant[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Maupassant never meant as much to her as Flaubert, or as Proust. She was reading collections of Maupassant's stories in mid-winter at Bowen's Court when she wrote to Vir...Elizabeth Bowen Guy de Maupassant'Yvette' [and other short stories]Print: Book
1900-1945'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the life and Work of Goldwin Smith in an interesting essay. F.J. Edminson dealt with his historical work & his position as an histo...Alfred Rawlings Goldwin SmithWilliam Lloyd GarrisonPrint: Book
1900-1945'[letter from M. Jusserand to Mrs Ward] 'I spent yesternight a most charming evening reading your essay [on the Brontes]. Shall I confess that I feel with Kingsley, havin...M. Jusserand Charlotte BronteShirleyPrint: Book
1900-1945'There was one German scholar with whom she had at any rate a lengthy correspondence - Dr Adolf Julicher, of Marburg, whose monumental work on the New Testament she prese...Mary Augusta Ward Adolf JulicherAn Introduction to the New TestamentPrint: Unknown, page proofs
1900-1945'[letter from Mrs Ward to Bishop Creighton, after her father's death] My father's was a rare and [italics] hidden [end italics] nature. Among his papers that have now com...Mary Augusta Ward Thomas Arnold[private papers]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Many thanks for the inscribed D.F. ['The Dark Forest'] Overwork has delayed me much with it. I thought the opening rather vague and lacking in direction ? due no doubt ...Arnold Bennett Hugh WalpoleThe Dark ForestPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thank you for sending me a copy of the United Methodist containing the article "Books and Bookmen", which deals with the close resemblances between an episode in Charles...Arnold Bennett Charles ShawWhen I was a ChildPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thank you for sending me a copy of the United Methodist containing the article "Books and Bookmen", which deals with the close resemblances between an episode in Charles...Arnold Bennett United MethodistPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'In the issue for December 23rd, 1915 of the NewYork "Nation" there is an extremely fine article on me by Stuart P. Sherman. On the whole I regard it as the best article...Arnold Bennett Stuart P. Sherman[article on Arnold Bennett]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I don?t know whether the translation from the Russian, "The Golovleff Family", (published by Knopf out your way) is any good, but the book is great. I read it twice in ...Arnold Bennett Mikhail Evgrafovich SaltuikovThe Golovleff FamilyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I like this book very much. ["Mr. Britling Sees It Through"] It is extremely original & sympathetic, & the scenes that ought to be the best are the best. In fact it is ...Arnold Bennett H.G. WellsMr Britling Sees It ThroughPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have at length had an opportunity to read "The Farm Servant". At first I thought it wasn?t going to be anything very particular, but it began to hold me soon afterwar...Arnold Bennett E.H. AnstrutherThe Farm ServantPrint: Book
1900-1945'And I have read Dreiser?s "The Financier", which I could never get hold of till the other day. This book, despite its dreadful slovenliness in details of phrase, is an e...Arnold Bennett Theodore DreiserThe FinancierPrint: Book
1900-1945'In your "Literary Notes and News" of Monday you state that George Smith paid Browning ?12,500 for the first five years? rights in The Ring and the Book. It is just as w...Arnold Bennett 'Literary Notes and News'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'In your "Literary Notes and News" of Monday you state that George Smith paid Browning ?12,500 for the first five years? rights in The Ring and the Book. It is just as w...Arnold Bennett Westminster GazettePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Tuesday 3 September 1918: 'Last night, L[eonard]. read Hardy's poems aloud.'Leonard Woolf Thomas HardypoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 10 September 1918: 'My intellectual snobbishness was chastened this morning by hearing from Janet [Case] that she reads Don Quixote & Paradise Lost, & her sister ...Janet Case Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 10 September 1918: 'My intellectual snobbishness was chastened this morning by hearing from Janet [Case] that she reads Don Quixote & Paradise Lost, & her sister ...Janet Case John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book


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