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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'I flung myself on my bed afterwards and tried to get some comfort from the volume of Wordsworth which had been the delight of my scholarship work in that long-ago that w...Vera Brittain William WordsworthunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Those famous sonnets, brought into prominence by the poet's death on the eve of the Dardanelles campaign, were then only just beginning to take the world's breath away, ...Vera Brittain Rupert Brooke1914Print: Book
1900-1945'By way of compensating him for my heretical indifference to the loveliness of Greek - a loveliness that came back to me in quieter days, more potent than life, more perm...Vera Brittain The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Together Edward and I looked at "The Times History of the War", picked out a newspaper paragraph stating that the total estimate of European war casualities was already ...Vera Brittain variousThe Times History of the WarPrint: Book
1900-1945'To console myself, I concluded, I had been re-reading one of our favourite fragments from W. E. Henley's "Bric-a-Brac":Vera Brittain W. E. HenleyBric-a-BracPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sometimes when I think ... of the Dream-city, with its grey towers and autumn sunsets, and the little room where surrounded by books I used to read "Tess of the D'Urber...Vera Brittain Thomas HardyTess of the D'UrbervillesPrint: Book, Unknown
1900-1945'After following the progress of the new Allied expedition to Salonika, and studying with mixed feelings the competitive journalistic outbursts over the shooting of Nurse...Vera Brittain The TimesPrint: Newspaper, Unknown
1900-1945'Once, in the midst of trying to read a Strindberg play, I felt ghostly fingers gently stirring my hair, and twice mysterious footsteps walked slowly up the ward, stopped...Vera Brittain Johan August StrindbergunknownPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'In my wooden hut, by means of a folding card-table and a remnant of black satin for tablecloth, I made a small shrine for a few of the books that Roland and I had admire...Vera Brittain Robert Hugh BensonVexilla RegisPrint: Book
1900-1945'Although, during those noisy, monotonous weeks, I had at last time to read the newspapers, with their perturbing accounts of the Easter Rebellion in Ireland, and Townshe...Vera Brittain newspaperPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'A boy thrust a "Star" into my hand, and, shivering with cold in the hot sunshine, I made myself read it.'Vera Brittain the 'Star' newspaperPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'The leisurely life on this surgical block left plenty of time for reading the various newspapers sent to me from England.'Vera Brittain newspaperPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'The book ["The Man of Property"] is in parts marvellously done and in its whole a piece of art-undubitably [sic] a piece of art. I've read it 3 times. My respect for you...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyThe Man of PropertyManuscript: presumably copy of MS which had been sent for publication, or the page proofs, since the book was not published until 23 March 1906
1900-1945'The blessed vol: ["The Fifth Queen"] arrived about 4 days ago - or is it a week? I've read it twice - thats all.[...] Here I'll add one more phrase bearing upon the most...Joseph Conrad Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)The Fifth Queen and how she came to court Print: Book
1900-1945'In some respects this little work of criticism is the profoundest of Winifred's books.'Vera Brittain Winifred HoltbyVirginia WoolfPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Ford's] "The Heart of the Country" is out today and a very charming piece of writing it is.' Joseph Conrad Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)The Heart of the Country: A Survey of Modern LandPrint: Book
1900-1945'I've read Jack's article in the "Speaker". Hum! Hum! He had better be careful.'Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyWanted - Schooling in FictionPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The Comet appeared to my naked (and surprised) eye yesterday morning. By a great effort of will I stuck to my own task till lunchtime. I began my observations in the aft...Joseph Conrad H.(Herbert) G.(George) Wells In the Days of the CometPrint: Book
1900-1945'And on the subject of Wells, his book on the United States is quite smart. He has understood a heap of fundamentally unintelligible things. That's the purpose of an imag...Joseph Conrad H.(Herbert) G.(George) Wells The Future in America: A search after realitiesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I got the play ["The Breaking Point"] at 9 this morning. I've shut myself up with it at once and I won't come out of the room. I will see no one, will let no word or th...Joseph Conrad Edward GarnettThe Breaking PointPrint: unclear whether MS or printed playscript


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