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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'Have just finished some recollections of Kipling called Something of Myself. I am horrified at his sufferings as a child. When not with the Burne-Jones family he was...Vere Hodgson Rudyard KiplingSomething of Myself for My Friends Known and Unkno...Print: Book
1900-1945'I have been longing to be back among you all, and feeling very lonely this afternoon. Since then I have been reading Tennyson's splendid "Ode to the Duke of Wellin...Robert Dunlop Smith Rudyard Kipling'Children's Song'
1850-1899'Life's Handicap'Sarah Good Rudyard KiplingLife's HandicapPrint: Book
1900-1945'In 1911 E. M. Forster read "with mingled joy and disgust" "A School History of England", which Kipling and C. R. L. Fletcher had just published ...'Edward Morgan Forster Rudyard and C. R. L. Kipling and FletcherA School History of EnglandPrint: Book
1900-1945"'..[Lady Cynthia Asquith's] diary records several occasions when, in the family circle or with a romantic companion, [Rupert] Brooke's poems were read aloud; 12 June and...Asquith FamilyRupert BrookepoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Bernard Kops, the son of an immigrant leather worker, had a special understanding of the transition from from autodidact culture to Bohemia to youth culture, because he ...Bernard Kops Rupert BrookeGrantchesterPrint: Book
1900-1945'To her father she wrote about her term work, the poetry she was reading and with details about new publications. "Do", she urged him, "try to get hold of 'The London Mer...Rosamond Lehmann Rupert Brooke[poem(s) in the London Mercury]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Henry James to Edward Marsh, 28 March 1915: 'I take it very kindly indeed of you to have found thought and time to send me the publication with the five brave sonnets [by...Henry James Rupert BrookesonnetsPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Monday, 8th March, Heavy day. Discussed the famous Parkin speech on Welsh sportsmanship, and the Glamorgan president?s reply. I think that such generalisations as tha...Gerald Moore Rupert BrookePoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Those famous sonnets, brought into prominence by the poet's death on the eve of the Dardanelles campaign, were then only just beginning to take the world's breath away, ...Vera Brittain Rupert Brooke1914Print: Book
1900-1945'He [Owen] bought Monro's latest collection "Strange Meetings" (1917), with its interesting title, and "Georgian Poetry 1916-1917". This new volume of the anthology, publ...Wilfred Owen Rupert Brooke Print: Book
1900-1945'At 8pm, there is a very good St George's Day concert by D-Block. They read extracts from the works of Shakespeare, Rupert Brooke and Kipling, as well as Noel Coward's "C...prisoners of warRupert Brooke[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I have been trying to think how far I and my like, middle class schoolboys at the end of our pre-war education, were unquestioning patriots ready to respond to heroics. ...Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh and schoolmatesRupert Brooke'Peace'Print: Book
1900-1945'I have been trying to think how far I and my like, middle class schoolboys at the end of our pre-war education, were unquestioning patriots ready to respond to heroics. ...Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh and schoolmatesRupert Brooke'The Dead'Print: Book
1900-1945'I have been trying to think how far I and my like, middle class schoolboys at the end of our pre-war education, were unquestioning patriots ready to respond to heroics. ...Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh and schoolmatesRupert Brooke'The Soldier'Print: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets. Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with readings from his works. Henry Newbolt. A paper by C....Helen Rawlings Rupert Brooke Print: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets. Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with readings from his works. Henry Newbolt. A paper by C....Katherine Evans Rupert Brooke Print: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets. Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with readings from his works. Henry Newbolt. A paper by C....Mary Robson Rupert Brooke Print: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets. Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with readings from his works. Henry Newbolt. A paper by C....Reginald Robson Rupert Brooke Print: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets. Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with readings from his works. Henry Newbolt. A paper by C....Reginald Robson Rupert Brooke Print: Book


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