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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 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 point...Arnold Bennett Frank SwinnertonShops and HousesPrint: 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 point...Arnold Bennett Frank SwinnertonOn the StaircasePrint: Book
1900-1945'Pardon my frankness. This is most distinctly an idea for a play. And you have put everything into it except the play. [The Sane Star]... Play returned herewith. A.B.'Arnold Bennett E.V. LucasThe Sane StarManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I have just seen (quoted in the National News) the following extract from "Gerald Cumberland’s" A Book of Reminiscences. . .'Arnold Bennett National NewsPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I add a few words above all to talk to you about the book. I've read the novel for the third time, faithfully--from one end to the other. It's very good. It's very good!...Joseph Conrad Marguerite PoradowskaPour NoemiPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thanks for the vol. Chaffery is immense. The thing as a whole remarkable in its effects.' Hence follow five more lines of praise. Joseph Conrad H.G. Wells Love and Mr LewishamPrint: Book
1900-1945''The MS heralded by your letter arrived this morning. I've had the time to read it . it is wonderfully well done: technically and in the clearness of the idea it is supe...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyThe Cosmopolitan (eventually known as A Knight)Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I've read "Cruz Alta" four days ago. c'est tout simplement magnifique. I know most of the sketches, in fact nearly all, except "Cruz Alta" itself.'Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamCruz Alta Print: Book
1900-1945'Many thanks for the "Cinque Ports" which came today as a most agreeable surprise. In the matter of outward characteristics the book has substance, appearance an air of s...Joseph Conrad Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)The Cinque PortsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I wanted to write to you about Your book [...] you know how paralysed one is sometimes-- and then we had talked--I had tried to talk of the book so many times that it se...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyThe Villa RubeinPrint: Book
1900-1945'I've read " Petersburg Tales". Phew! That is something! [...] That work is genuine, undeniable, constructed and inhabited. It hath [sic] foundation and life.'Joseph Conrad Olive GarnettThe Petersburg TalesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I've read "The Silence" once but shall keep it till tomorrow. Certain remarks I keep for a note which I will send you together with the MS. Here I will only say that I ...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyThe SilenceManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Many thanks for your letter. The enclosure was most interesting. It reveals an original personality and to me attractive. It is at the same time a most flattering recogn...Joseph Conrad Frank Challice Constable(letter)Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'I run on with leaden feet and do not seem to advance an inch. I see no one, read nothing but "Maga" which is a solace a treat, an event.' Hence follows a short comment...Joseph Conrad Blackwood's Magazine.Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I have never had the pleasure of meeting him [Admiral Sir William Robert Kennedy] ; but I've read and admired his book.[...] I re-read Admiral Kennedy's book with gratit...Joseph Conrad William Robert KennedyHurrah for the Life of a Sailor: Fifty Years in th...Print: Book
1900-1945'As to "Charlotte" the genuineness of its conception the honesty of its feeling make that work as welcome as a breath of fresh air to a breast oppressed by all the fumes ...Joseph Conrad David MeldrumThe Conquest of CharlottePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Nevertheless I've read the book ["A Man of Devon"] twice'. Hence follows a page of constructive criticism. Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyA Man of DevonPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am altogether under the charm of that book ["A Vanished Arcadia"] in accord with its spirit and full of admiration for its expression.'Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamA Vanished ArcadiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read [italics] The Captain's Doll [end italics] [D.H. Lawrence] again (about the 8th time I think) and like it better than ever. Odd how again, though, the woman is more...Antonia White David Herbert LawrenceCaptain's Doll, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Baccae [sic] is far and away the best play of Euripides I have read.'Virginia Woolf EuripidesThe BacchaePrint: Book


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