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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
 
1900-1945Wednesday 24 February 1937: 'Started reading French again: Misanthrope & Colette's memoirs given me last summer by Janie [Jane-Simone Bussy]: when I was in the dismal dro...Virginia Woolf Colette Mes ApprentisagesPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 24 February 1937: 'Started reading French again: Misanthrope & Colette's memoirs given me last summer by Janie [Jane-Simone Bussy]: when I was in the dismal dro...Virginia Woolf Moliere Le MisanthropePrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 8 March 1937: 'What I noticed on the walk to Cockfosters [on 6 March] were: [records various observations] [...] then the tramps [...] The middle aged woman was tr...Virginia Woolf Leo TolstoyWhat Then Must We Do?Print: Book
1900-1945Friday 19 March 1937: '"They" say almost universally that The Years is a masterpiece [...] The praise chorus began yesterday: by the way I was walking in Covent Garden & ...Virginia Woolf Howard Springreview of Virginia Woolf, The YearsPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I am sitting in my dug-out this evening eagerly discussing over a mug of tea poets and poems with a brother officer, when he is called away about some ammunition for his...Douglas Herbert Bell unknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Another writer D.J. rated highly was Thomas Hardy, whose novel "Jude the Obscure" he used to read and re-read with what Taylor described as 'morbid satisfaction'.'David John Thomas Thomas HardyJude the ObscurePrint: Book
1900-1945'According to Florrie [his mother] Dylan taught himself to read from second-rate comics such as "Rainbow"'.Dylan Thomas RainbowPrint: Serial / periodical, comic
1900-1945'Her reading as a child was voracious, although her late start in learning to read for herself left her with a cosy taste for being read to. Her governess hads read aloud...Elizabeth Bowen George Macdonald[probably] Princess and Curdie, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Her reading as a child was voracious, although her late start in learning to read for herself left her with a cosy taste for being read to. Her governess hads read aloud...Elizabeth Bowen Emmuska, Baroness OrczyScarlet Pimpernel, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Her reading as a child was voracious, although her late start in learning to read for herself left her with a cosy taste for being read to. Her governess hads read aloud...Elizabeth Bowen Edith Nesbit[probably] Five Children and ItPrint: Book
1900-1945'Her reading as a child was voracious, although her late start in learning to read for herself left her with a cosy taste for being read to. Her governess hads read aloud...Elizabeth Bowen Charles Dickens[Works]Print: Book
1900-1945'In a BBC talk of 1947 about the book that had most influenced her early years, she chose to talk about Rider Haggard's "She"; she came upon it at the age of twelve, "whe...Elizabeth Bowen Henry Rider HaggardShePrint: Book
1900-1945'The only above-board children's stories for grown-ups, she thought, were detective stories, and those she read for pure pleasure all her life'.Elizabeth Bowen [unknown][detective stories]Print: Book
1900-1945'Elizabeth worked hard for the lessons she liked, and instead of preparation for the ones she didn't like she read poetry, the Bible, and checked out the facts of life in...Elizabeth Bowen [n/a]EncyclopaediaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Elizabeth worked hard for the lessons she liked, and instead of preparation for the ones she didn't like she read poetry, the Bible, and checked out the facts of life in...Elizabeth Bowen [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'Have you read Frank Harris?s privately published Life & Confessions of Oscar Wilde? It is a strange & powerful book, written by a man who is a curious mixture of impuls...Arnold Bennett Frank HarrisOscar Wilde: His Life and ConfessionsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Have you read Frank Harris?s privately published Life & Confessions of Oscar Wilde? It is a strange & powerful book, written by a man who is a curious mixture of impuls...Arnold Bennett Anton ChekhovThe Tales of TchehovPrint: Book
1900-1945'I think MacGill has written one or two excellent things on the Push. [Patrick MacGill, The Great Push , 1916] I do want you to realise that intelligent people here, th...Arnold Bennett Patrick MacGillThe Great PushPrint: Book
1900-1945'You ought to read "He looked in my Window" by Robert Halifax (publ. by Chatto & Windus). It is really remarkable.' Arnold Bennett Robert HalifaxHe Looked in my WindowPrint: Book
1900-1945'A slight work, but just about perfect. In fact I do not know how to find fault with it. ["Nocturne", 1917] . . . And I left off "Wuthering Heights" in order to read it...Arnold Bennett Frank SwinnertonNocturnePrint: Book


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