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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
 
1900-1945Henry James to Rudyard Kipling, 30 October 1901: 'I can't lay down "Kim" without wanting much to write to you [...] I overflow, I beg you to believe, with "Kim", and I re...Henry James Rudyard KiplingKimPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding Rudyard KiplingLight that Failed, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I was eighteen when I first read those words. My train was running into Rye station and I was knocked out the ashes of my first pipe of shag tobacco... My first book had...Ford Madox Ford Rudyard KiplingOnly a subalternPrint: Book
1900-1945'Kipling had now been supplemented with Henty, Ballantyne, Rider Haggard and John Buchan, all with their own tales of imperial derring-do to tell theimpressionable young...Lawrence Durrell Rudyard KiplingKimPrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday, 2nd January, Letter from Neill at Grimsby, Ontario: no other address. Nothing for Mother. Read: ?Plain Tales from the Hills? (R.Kipling)'. Gerald Moore Rudyard KiplingPlain Tales from the HillsPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1926] '"Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" (Holmes), "Plain Tales from the Hills" (Kipling), "History of Florence" (Machiavelli), "Essays in Soci...Gerald Moore Rudyard KiplingPlain Tales from the HillsPrint: Book
1900-1945'22nd September 1928 (Saturday). I have started to read Kipling?s ?Letters of travel? again. I am very fond of this book although the slabs of jaunty, impatient, imper...Gerald Moore Rudyard KiplingLetters of TravelPrint: Book
1900-1945'3rd October 1928 (Wednesday). Late to work, naturally. Although tired, put in a good day?s work and returned home hungry as a hunter. Finished ?Letters of Travel?...Gerald Moore Rudyard KiplingLetters of TravelPrint: Book
1900-1945'15th March 1929 Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, de Quincey -- in short, a browse. We looked at ?...Gerald Moore Rudyard KiplingunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have never (in his prose work) found a trace of the artist?s passion for words & loving care over them; & in his poetry I am convinced that the extraordinarily vivid i...Arnold Bennett Rudyard KiplingThe Long TrailPrint: Book
1850-1899'Also to tell you that I have this morning read Kipling?s new book Captains Courageous, & that it is MAGNIFICENT.' Arnold Bennett Rudyard KiplingCaptains CourageousPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 July 1911: 'I have been reading Kipling's child's history of England with mingled joy and disgust. It's a fine conception, but oh ...Edward Morgan Forster Rudyard KiplingPuck of Pook's HillPrint: Book
1900-1945'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she would never, from the first, read anything that she...Rosemary Sutcliff Rudyard KiplingPuck of Pook's HillPrint: Book
1900-1945'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she would never, from the first, read anything that she...Rosemary Sutcliff Rudyard KiplingunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'[At Mrs Ward's Passmore Edwards Settlement] One class, too, she kept as her very own - a weekly reading aloud for boys between eleven and fourteen, in the course of whic...Mary Augusta Ward Rudyard Kipling Print: Book
1850-1899'One of the last letters my father wrote during this year [1891] was to the young poet William Watson, whose "Wordsworth's Grave" pleased him [...] He praised too Mr Rudy...Alfred Tennyson Rudyard Kipling'The English Flag'Unknown
1850-1899'The programme on Rudyard Kipling & his books was opened by the reading of a published paper on the author by H. M. Wallis, by the Chairman followed by an interesting dis...Alfred Rawlings Rudyard Kipling Print: Book
1850-1899'The programme on Rudyard Kipling & his books was opened by the reading of a published paper on the author by H. M. Wallis, by the Chairman followed by an interesting dis...Mr Stubington Rudyard Kipling Print: Book
1850-1899'The programme on Rudyard Kipling & his books was opened by the reading of a published paper on the author by H. M. Wallis, by the Chairman followed by an interesting dis...T.T. Stubington Rudyard Kipling Print: Book
1850-1899'The programme on Rudyard Kipling & his books was opened by the reading of a published paper on the author by H. M. Wallis, by the Chairman followed by an interesting dis...Charles Stubington Rudyard Kipling Print: Book


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