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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'[Baby] is making progress with her reading & can - most times - identify the sound & the curly S & the elegant L. Perhaps she will be writing short stories by your retur...Esther Julia Ford [unknown][first reading]Print: Unknown
1900-1945As for me I am reading Wells on history! I think it wickeder than I did: but it's an amazing piece of book-making. When he gets past clerical & medieval times he's quite ...Ford Madox Ford Herbert George Wells Outline of History, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been interrupted [in finishing a play] by getting back the m.s. of [underlined] Mr. Bosphorus [end underlining] which I have just gone through again, cutting it a...Ford Madox Ford Ford Madox FordMr Bosphorus and the MusesManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'behind my back, E.J. is reading H.G.'s [underlined] Outline of History [end underlining] & making riotous comments on Amenhotep IV who she declares is a lidie with two h...Esther Julia Ford Herbert George WellsOutline of History, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I had a long conversation in the tram yesterday with an old maid who had just come back from Florence & talked about pictures, & when I said that I thought Giotto was mo...Ford Madox FordHolbeinPrint: Book
1900-1945'I had a long conversation in the tram yesterday with an old maid who had just come back from Florence & talked about pictures, & when I said that I thought Giotto was mo...Maurice HewlettLittle Novels of ItalyPrint: Book
1900-1945'It is very curious her [Ford's daughter's] coquettish mischievousness. If you shew her a letter she will always say it wrong: but when she is sitting on the bed in the m...Esther Julia Ford [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'I am rather dithered after writing nearly all night & [underlined] then [end underlining] reading the [underlined] Marsden Case [end underlining] - not without satisfact...Ford Madox Ford Ford Madox FordMarsden Case, The: A RomanceUnknown
1900-1945'I see there is a little reference to him [Drake] in a rude interview with me in the [underlined] World [end underlining] that I send you.'Ford Madox Ford [n/a]World, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The Daily mail has persistent articles about Stabilisation at 100' [reference to currency fluctuations]Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen [n/a]Daily Mail, ThePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention. From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward & from readings by Rosamund Wallis we learnt what a ...Alfred Rawlings Demon Lover, ThePrint: Unknown
1900-1945'I have been too much bothered & depressed by the S.L. ['South Lodge', Ford's code for Violet Hunt] book to write [...] In the meantime Rebecca [West] naturally has saile...Ford Madox Ford Violet HuntFlurried Years, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been too much bothered & depressed by the S.L. ['South Lodge', Fiord's code for Violet Hunt] book to write [...] In the meantime Rebecca [West] naturally has sail...Rebecca West Violet HuntFlurried Years, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I read "The Old Houses of Flanders" & "Clair de Lune", first half, & "Thank Goodness the Moving is Over" last night after my speech... & I was signing copies of my books...Ford Madox Ford Ford Madox Ford[several poems]Unknown
1900-1945'What really [underlined] has [end underlining] harmed me here [as opposed to Violet Hunt's memoirs]- oddly enough -is Jessie's letter to the [underlined] Times [end unde...Ford Madox Ford Jessie ConradTimes Literary SupplementPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The only thing S.L. [Violet Hunt's memoirs] says about you, by the bye, is that I am now wandering homeless over Europe with a younger and more robust Egeria. I meant to...Ford Madox Ford [unknown]review of Violet Hunt's 'The Flurried Years' in th...Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Mrs van Doren told me yesterday that Macfee - one of her reviewers- had received a letter full of the most incredible Billingsgate from Jessie because he had mentioned m...Ford Madox Ford Jessie ConradJoseph Conrad as I Knew HimPrint: Book
1900-1945'I took the Boni brothers out to lunch at a speak-easy & Albert said (A.) he had read SL's memoirs completely through & could find nothing in it but a most touching tribu...Albert Boni Violet HuntFlurried Years, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I've had [underlined] one [end underlining] violent set-too with Douglas on the subject of Gertrude Stein. He said her work was "purest bosh" & thought it "a shame" that...Douglas Cole Getrude Stein[art criticism]Print: Book
1900-1945'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention. From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward & from readings by Rosamund Wallis we learnt what a ...Rosamund Wallis [readings from ballads]Print: Unknown


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