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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'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 Henry MurgerScenes de la Vie de BohemePrint: Book
1900-1945'[Tom, an Oxford contemporary] Following an elite fashion among moneyed aesthetes, he published, privately, a slim volume of poems on thick hand-made paper - "Eyes of Ado...Ralph Glasser Tom Eyes of AdonisPrint: Book
1900-1945[following transcribed passage on 'gravity,' from Tristram Shandy I.ii] 'Insight vitiated by instinct of self defence -- probably typical of Sterne, whom I have begun ...Edward Morgan Forster Laurence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlema...Print: Book
1900-1945'More I reflect on the novel the higher I place it: attempts to read Swift, Miss Burney, Smollett, place it on a pinnacle.'Edward Morgan Forster Jonathan Swift Print: Book
1900-1945'More I reflect on the novel the higher I place it: attempts to read Swift, Miss Burney, Smollett, place it on a pinnacle.'Edward Morgan Forster Frances Burney Print: Book
1900-1945'More I reflect on the novel the higher I place it: attempts to read Swift, Miss Burney, Smollett, place it on a pinnacle.'Edward Morgan Forster Tobias Smollett Print: Book
1900-1945In Commonplace Book entries made during 1926, E. M. Forster comments upon, and transcribes passages from, Defoe's Moll Flanders, remarking upon the work as 'A puzzling b...Edward Morgan Forster Daniel DefoeMoll FlandersPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Percy Lubbock] thinks ["The Craft of Fiction" -- a sensitive yet poor spirited book] that the aim of a novel should be capable of being put into a phrase, "ten words th...Edward Morgan Forster Percy LubbockThe Craft of FictionPrint: Book
1900-1945Among entries made in 1926 in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book is a passage from Vanbrugh, The Provok'd Wife III.i (opening '[italics]Virtue[end italics], alas, is no mor...Edward Morgan Forster John VanbrughThe Provok'd WifePrint: Book
1900-1945'Robinson Crusoe an English book -- and only the English could have accepted it as adult literature: comforted by feeling that the life of adventure could be led by a man...Edward Morgan Forster Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1900-1945'Gulliver is Robinson Crusoe in Fairy Land [...] '[quotes] He said the [italics]Struldbrugs[end italics] commonly acted like Mortals until about thirty Years old, aft...Edward Morgan Forster Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Clarissa Harlowe. Have read 1/3 of [...] Certainly I am bored, but the book is not tedious through repetition -- the endless variety and modulations are not in themselve...Edward Morgan Forster Samuel RichardsonClarissa, or The History of a Young LadyPrint: Book
1900-1945Among texts discussed and quoted from at length in 1926 Commonplace Book of E. M. Forster is Henry James, The Ambassadors, with comments including 'Pattern exquisitely wo...Edward Morgan Forster Henry JamesThe AmbassadorsPrint: Book
1900-1945Among texts discussed and quoted from in 1926 Commonplace Book of E. M. Forster is Norman Douglas, D. H. Lawrence and Maurice Magnus: A Plea for Better Manners (1924).Edward Morgan Forster Norman DouglasD. H. Lawrence and Maurice Magnus: A Plea for Bett...Print: Book
1900-1945Among texts discussed and quoted from in 1926 Commonplace Book of E. M. Forster is Herman Melville, Billy Budd, with remarks including 'Billy Budd [...] has goodness, of ...Edward Morgan Forster Herman MelvilleBilly BuddPrint: Book
1900-1945'Great Expectations. Alliance between atmosphere and plot (the convicts) make it more solid and satisfactory than anything else of D[ickens]. known to me. Very fine writi...Edward Morgan Forster Charles DickensGreat ExpectationsPrint: Book
1900-1945Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with examples including Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes ('how si...Edward Morgan Forster Sylvia Townsend WarnerLolly WillowesPrint: Book
1900-1945Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further comments including: 'Bunny's books are so good because the...Edward Morgan Forster David GarnettA Man in the ZooPrint: Book
1900-1945Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further comments including: 'Bunny's books are so good because the...Edward Morgan Forster David GarnettLady into FoxPrint: Book
1900-1945Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further comments including: 'Bunny's books are so good because the...Edward Morgan Forster David GarnettThe Sailor's ReturnUnknown


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