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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'Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James Joyce with no expectation that he would enjoy him, ...Philip Larkin Thomas Stearns Eliot[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James Joyce with no expectation that he would enjoy him, ...Philip Larkin Wystan Hugh Auden[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James Joyce with no expectation that he would enjoy him, ...Philip Larkin Edward Falaise Upward[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James Joyce with no expectation that he would enjoy him, ...Philip Larkin Christopher Isherwood[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Throughout 1939 his reports speak of "improvements", and even though he still did "not much like" his English teacher he worked hard, widening his reading to include Ver...Philip Larkin Paul Verlaine[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Throughout 1939 his reports speak of "improvements", and even though he still did "not much like" his English teacher he worked hard, widening his reading to include Ver...Philip Larkin Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Verlaine[unknown]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 ...Mary Hayward Mary Hayward[paper on ballads]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Mins of last meeting read & signed'Ernest E. Unwin Ernest E. Unwin[Minutes of XII Book Club]Manuscript: book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps) The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis and to H.R. Smith for able essays giving an outline o...Howard R. Smith Howard R. Smith[essay on Pepys]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps) The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis and to H.R. Smith for able essays giving an outline o...Henry Marriage Wallis Henry Marriage Wallis[essay on Pepys]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps) The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis and to H.R. Smith for able essays giving an outline o...Mary Robson Samuel PepysDiaryPrint: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps) The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis and to H.R. Smith for able essays giving an outline o...Rosamund Wallis Samuel PepysDiaryPrint: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps) The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis and to H.R. Smith for able essays giving an outline o...Reginald Robson Samuel PepysDiaryPrint: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps) The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis and to H.R. Smith for able essays giving an outline o...Ernest E. Unwin Samuel PepysDiaryPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mins of last meeting were read & signed'Ernest E. Unwin Ernest E. Unwin[Minutes of XII Book Club]Manuscript: book
1900-1945'There, on warm weekend days, I would sit and read in a peaceful arbour where trees and shrubbery muffled the noise of traffic'Ralph Glasser  Print: Book
1900-1945'The" River of Cathay" is good; it is right; perfectly right; right in tone and in expression. It pleased me much.' Joseph Conrad Ernest DawsonThe River of Cathay Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I ought to have thanked you before but I preferred to read the book first. I've read it twice with casts back here and there. The book is remarkable- and that it will be...Joseph Conrad Hugh CliffordA Free Lance of TodayPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been reading again the "[A] Vanished Arcadia" - from the dedication, so full of charm, to the last paragraph with its ironic aside about the writers of books "pro...Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamA Vanished Arcadia: being some account of the Jesu...Print: Book
1900-1945'The "Mercure de France" notice is agreeable - and as he [Henry-Durand Davray] reproduces what I have been lately talking at him as to French fiction I am flattered.' Joseph Conrad Henry-Durand Davrayunknown Print: Serial / periodical


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