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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
 
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 29 January 1918: 'I have been reading Racine and Claudel.'Edward Morgan Forster Paul Claudel Print: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 29 January 1918: 'Lucretius has come -- I like him very much.'Edward Morgan Forster Robert TrevelyanTranslations from LucretiusManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Florence [Barger] has read Edward Carpenter's My Days and Dreams: Being Autobiographical Notes (1916).'Florence Barger Edward CarpenterMy Days and Dreams: Being Autobiographical NotesPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Siegfried Sassoon, 2 May 1918: 'Have just finished The Sense of the Past, and though it's so obscure -- find it much nearer the work of other writers ...Edward Morgan Forster Henry JamesThe Sense of the PastPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Siegfried Sassoon, 3 August 1918: 'Re the poets you mention I have read some of them both. I liked Graves. Nichols not so much.'Edward Morgan Forster Robert Graves Print: Unknown
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Siegfried Sassoon, 3 August 1918: 'Re the poets you mention I have read some of them both. I liked Graves. Nichols not so much.'Edward Morgan Forster Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols Print: Unknown
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 23 August 1918: 'Thank you for your poem on Confuscius [sic]. It amused me very much.'Edward Morgan Forster Robert Trevelyan Unknown
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 10 January 1919: 'Some of your stories I have read before, but I am enjoying and admiring them all. "Kenneth" made me laugh so nicely. T...Edward Morgan Forster Forrest Reid'Kenneth'Print: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 10 January 1919: 'Some of your stories I have read before, but I am enjoying and admiring them all. "Kenneth" made me laugh so nicely. T...Edward Morgan Forster Forrest Reid'The Trial of Witches'Print: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 23 February 1920: 'Mother is reading "The Arrow of Lead" as she calls it, and finds it very slow.'Alice Clara Forster Joseph ConradThe Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two NotesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I've just read Nelson. It is very good. Some criticism can be made mainly on the point that you presuppose too much knowledge of facts in your readers. Still we shall t...Joseph Conrad Norman Douglasunknown Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Thank you for sending me your novel. I think that there is much good writing, and that you have a strong visual sense, but I do get tired of the perpetual pillow fights....Edith Sitwell Charles Henri Ford ( with Parker Tyler)The Young and the EvilPrint: Book
1900-1945'Now I'm reading Festivals of Fire, which I had sent for before I got your letter; it was most charming of you to offer to send it it to me, and I think it remarkable, an...Edith Sitwell Ronald BottrallFestival of FirePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just read Love on the Dole and His Worship The Mayor, books which were sent me by a friend a short time ago, for the second time, and I feel impelled to tell you ...Edith Sitwell Walter GreenwoodLove on the DolePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just read Love on the Dole and His Worship The Mayor, books which were sent me by a friend a short time ago, for the second time, and I feel impelled to tell you ...Edith Sitwell Walter GreenwoodHis Worship the MayorPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just been reading and digesting Engel's Conditions of the Working Classes in England, in intention, heaven knows, a noble work; but he can't write, so it raised a...Edith Sitwell Friedrich EngelsConditions of the Working Classess in EnglandPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thanks very much for the book and the "Spectator" page.[...] These are all delightful pieces. You must autograph the book for me.' Joseph Conrad unknown unknown Fragments from an Officer's Diary in Southern Pol...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Thanks very much for the book and the "Spectator" page.[...] These are all delightful pieces. You must autograph the book for me.' Joseph Conrad W. H. (William Henry) Davieseither The Bird of Paradise and other Poems OR Na...Print: Book
1900-1945'I have been thinking about Eliot and Jew hatred - a compassionate man one would say, cultured, civilised? and yet he can write poison like this: "The rats are underne...Bill Werner Thomas Stearns Eliot'Burbank'Print: Book
1900-1945'The music of "La Boheme" having taken special hold of me, I read the libretto in the Mitchell Library, and as much as I could find about Murger and his world, and the pe...Ralph Glasser Luigi Illica[libretto of 'La Boheme]Print: Book


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