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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've read your book ["His People"] with the usual delight and more than the usual admiration.[...] Three times I've gone through your pages so vigorous, so personal and ...Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamHis PeoplePrint: 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 ...Elizabeth Marriage Battle of Otterburn, ThePrint: Unknown
1900-1945Years ago I looked into "Typee" and "Omoo" but as I didn't find there what I am looking for when I open a book I did go no further. Lately I had in my hand "Moby Dick". I...Joseph Conrad Herman MelvilleMoby Dick or The WhalePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been a few times to the Town [Montpellier] Library- with an object. And the object is reading up all I can discover there about Napoleon in Elba.' Joseph Conrad Paul GruyerNapoleon, roi de l'ile d'Elbe Print: Book
1900-1945'Jessie's cooking book is written and quite ready and corrected with several Remarks, 130 recipes and Prefaces by yours truly-all wanting to be retyped nice and clean.[.....Joseph Conrad Jessie ConradA Handbook of Cookery for a Small House Manuscript: Sheet, final typescript and possibly earlier versions as well
1900-1945'My dearest Jack I read the "C[ountry H[ouse]" with perfectly unalloyed delight. [...] I can only say it came to me in book form with a freshness, with a force, with an a...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyThe Country HousePrint: Book
1900-1945' I didn't write before because I was finishing something. That does not mean that I did not read the play ["Joy"] at once. I've read it more than once the very first day...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyJoyPrint: probably a playscript
1900-1945'I've read Hueffer's portrait of Mr John Galsworthy several times. It is interesting mostly as a portrait of Mr Hueffer himself. I have my own strong conception of J.G. I...Joseph Conrad Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)[article on Galsworthy]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'In many respects and from an absolute point of judgement - the book ["An English Girl"] is simply magnificent.' Hence follows a page of almost unqualified praise.Joseph Conrad Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)An English GirlPrint: Book
1900-1945' I have had the new edition of Sta. Teresa sent down for a leisurely re-reading. It seems no end of years since I read first this wonderful book--the revelation for the ...Joseph Conrad Gabriela Cunninghame GrahamSanta Teresa: Her Life and TimesPrint: Book
1900-1945'The first instalment of your story in the PMM ["Pall Mall Magazine"] opens the year brilliantly. How good you are in presenting the human interest of a story in terms of...Joseph Conrad H.(Herbert) G.(George) Wells The War in the AirPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The new edition of the "Island Ph[arisee]" arrived during the crisis of horrors [severe gout and the debilitating effects of the then new colchicine treatment] and I tac...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyThe Island PhariseesPrint: Book
1900-1945'"I am going to call attention in this department," it ran, "to the fact that the most informing - and upsetting - book to read to-day on the Abyssinian crisis is "Mandoa...May Lamberton-Becker Winifred HoltbyMandoa, Mandoa!Print: Book
1900-1945'Often, when my incompetent needle refused, as it has always refused throughout my life, to collaborate with my intentions, the kimono was abandoned for such scanty liter...Vera Brittain John MasefieldGallipoliPrint: Serial / periodical, magazines
1900-1945'The letter began with a keen criticism of Robert Service's "Rhymes of a Red Cross Man", which had just been sent out to him from England. He particularly resented, it s...Victor unknown Robert ServiceRhymes of a Red Cross ManPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'A verse from Thomas Hardy's "In time of the Breaking of Nations" floated into my mind from the volume of his poems that Edward had sent me in Malta: "Only thin sm...Vera Brittain Thomas HardyIn Time of the Breaking of NationsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Those 2 poems of Masefield's are very good....Poetry counteracts the deadening influence a good deal....I am reading "The Loom of Youth" in bits....It is very good and i...Edward Brittain John MasefieldThe Loom of YouthUnknown
1900-1945'As the winter grew colder and colder I spent the deep trough of the early hours in a huddled heap beside the stove, drinking sample bottles of liqueur from Paris-Plage o...Vera Brittain Gilbert FrankauThe City of FearPrint: Book
1900-1945'The magazines, when more demanding than the "Tatler", still belonged to the Conservative variety, such as the weekly "Times", the "Spectator" and "Blackwood's", so that ...Vera Brittain The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Minutes of last meeting read & signed'Ernest E. Unwin Ernest E. Unwin[minutes of XII Book Club]Manuscript: book


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