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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'Raw February Afternoon 2-30 [...] Reading Vaughan [quotes two stanzas beginning 'Thou art a moon-like toil'] [...] Reading F. R. Lucas also [quotes seven lines beginnin...Edward Morgan Forster Henry Vaughan'Quickness'Print: Book
1900-1945'Raw February Afternoon 2-30 [...] Reading Vaughan [quotes two stanzas beginning 'Thou art a moon-like toil'] [...] Reading F. R. Lucas also [quotes seven lines beginnin...Edward Morgan Forster F. L. Lucas'The Graces'Print: Book
1900-1945'Raw February Afternoon 2-30 [...] Thought, after reading little Cyril Conolly [sic], of the new generation knocking at the door, and wondered whether it is more than a s...Edward Morgan Forster Cyril Connolly Print: Unknown
1900-1945'L'Heroisme consiste a ne pas permettre au corps de renier les impudences de l'esprit 'runs an epigram of Maurois which bowled me at the first reading; then, as so oft...Edward Morgan Forster Andre MauroisByronPrint: Book
1900-1945'Have been trying to read Solent Wolf [sic] again -- duck-weed and spittle unrelieved [...] No wonder that those Hardyesque fungi, the Powys [brothers T. F. and John Cowp...Edward Morgan Forster John Cowper PowysWolf SolentPrint: Book
1900-1945'The book ["The Year of Trafalgar"] arrived. Some day I will bring it to London for you to write your name and mine on the flyleaf, thus making it specially valuable ap...Joseph Conrad Henry NewboltThe Year of Trafalgar: being an account of the bat...Print: Book
1900-1945'Your article on [Icelandic] Sagas first rate and extracts quoted are good. I quite see how one could get dramas out of that.' Joseph Conrad Edward GarnettThe Icelandic Sagas Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I have re-read your book on Trafalgar and can only repeat that your argumentation is absolutely convincing.'Joseph Conrad Henry NewboltThe Year of Trafalgar: being an account of the bat...Print: Book
1900-1945'If you don't know already it may interest you to know that in Anatole France's last book ["Sur la pierre blanche"] there are two allusions to you.' Hence follow eleven...Joseph Conrad Anatole France Sur la pierre blanchePrint: Book
1900-1945'I don't know whether I ought to mention my delight at your approval of "Abeille" [by Anatole France]. I put it in your hands with confidence and trust - but one never k...Joseph Conrad Anatole France Abeille: conte Print: Book
1900-1945'I don't know whether I ought to mention my delight at your approval of "Abeille" [by Anatole France]. I put it in your hands with confidence and trust - but one never k...Joseph Conrad Anatole France ThaisPrint: Book
1900-1945'In front of the fire, the little plump cook read the evening paper aloud to the housemaid. "'The Queen is now asleep,'" she quoted in sepulchral tones, while I, absorb...anon [a cook] evening paperPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'My mother did her conscientious best to remedy the deficiencies of our literary education by reading Dickens aloud to us on Sunday afternoons. We ploughed through "Davi...Vera Brittain Charles DickensDavid Copperfield Print: Book
1900-1945'Her encouragement even prevailed upon us to read the newspapers, which were then quite unusual adjuncts to teaching in girls' private schools.'Vera Brittain newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'During Preparation one wild autumn evening in St Monica's gymnasium, when the wind shook the unsubstantial walls and a tiny crescent of moon, glimpsed through a skylight...Vera Brittain Percy Bysshe ShelleyAdonaisPrint: Unknown
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include three stanzas (beginning 'Old warder of these buried bones') from Tennyson, In Memoriam (1870 edit...Edward Morgan Forster Alfred TennysonIn MemoriamPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include Tennyson, 'A Farewell'.Edward Morgan Forster Alfred Tennyson'A Farewell'Print: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include Poem LII ('Far in a western brookland') of A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad.Edward Morgan Forster A. E. HousmanPoem LII ('Far in a western brookland')Print: Book
1900-1945Texts discussed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include Corneille, Trois Discours ('Sur le poeme dramatique'; 'Sur la tragedie'; 'Sur les trois unites').Edward Morgan Forster Pierre CorneilleTrois DiscoursPrint: Book
1900-1945Texts discussed, and quoted from at length, in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include The Conquest of Granada, and its prefatory Essay of Heroic Plays.Edward Morgan Forster John DrydenThe Conquest of GranadaPrint: Book


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