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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'My first vague realisation that poverty was the result of humanity's incompetence, and not an inviolable law of nature, had come with the sixteen-year-old reading of Car...Vera Brittain Thomas CarlylePast and PresentPrint: Book
1900-1945'There is no particular talk in this house except the slump in theatres, & the general & increasing badness of the 'London Mercury'. I find the L.M. very dull & pompous....Arnold Bennett London MercuryPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'So I turned, as often, for help and advice to Mrs.Gaskell's "Life of Charlotte Bronte", which Winifred and I had read and admired together.'Vera Brittain Elizabeth GaskellLife of Charlotte BrontePrint: Book
1900-1945'In a short vignette called "Harking Back to Long Ago", Winifred describes how she and Grace, aged four and six and a half, lay awake on Christmas Eve gazing through the ...Vera Brittain Winifred HoltbyHarking Back to Long AgoUnknown
1900-1945[the curriculum at the Dragon School] included much memorizing of poetry, particularly Tennyson's 'Ulysses' and 'Morte d'Arthur'. John learned a lot of poetry by heart an...John Betjeman Alfred, Lord Tennyson'Ulysses'Print: Book
1900-1945[the curriculum at the Dragon School] included much memorizing of poetry, particularly Tennyson's 'Ulysses' and 'Morte d'Arthur'. John learned a lot of poetry by heart an...John Betjeman Alfred, Lord Tennyson'Morte d'Arthur'Print: Book
1900-1945'The poets John read at Highgate Junior School included Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Campbell and Edgar Allan Poe'.John Betjeman Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Print: Book
1900-1945'The poets John read at Highgate Junior School included Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Campbell and Edgar Allan Poe'.John Betjeman Edgar Allan Poe Print: Book
1900-1945'The poets John read at Highgate Junior School included Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Campbell and Edgar Allan Poe'.John Betjeman Thomas Campbell Print: Book
1900-1945'John was not only reading and quoting Lord Alfred Douglas at Marlborough. Ernest Betjeman [his father] was scandalized to discover that he was also corresponding with th...John Betjeman Alfred Douglas Print: Book
1900-1945'[quotation from Maurice Bowra's Memoirs] The first time I met him [John Betjeman] he talked fluently about half forgotten authors of the nineteenth century - Sir Henry T...John Betjeman Ebeneezer Elliott Print: Book
1900-1945'[quotation from Maurice Bowra's Memoirs] The first time I met him [John Betjeman] he talked fluently about half forgotten authors of the nineteenth century - Sir Henry T...John Betjeman Henry Taylor Print: Book
1900-1945'[quotation from Maurice Bowra's Memoirs] The first time I met him [John Betjeman] he talked fluently about half forgotten authors of the nineteenth century - Sir Henry T...John Betjeman Philip James Bailey Print: Book
1900-1945'[quotation from Maurice Bowra's Memoirs] The first time I met him [John Betjeman] he talked fluently about half forgotten authors of the nineteenth century - Sir Henry T...John Betjeman Lewis Morris Print: Book
1900-1945 '. . . There have been 2 supreme books since your regretted departure. G. Moore’s 'Avowals' and the letters of Chekhov . . .'Arnold Bennett George MooreAvowalsPrint: Book
1900-1945'My dear Miss Sorabji My husband & I were so distressed at the sad news contained in our paper today that I cannot refrain from sending you a few lines of sincere sympat...Sybill Roffes Theodore Leighton Pennell Print: Book
1900-1945'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, concluding with a reading "Latter Day Warnings" for The...Charles Evans Oliver Wendell Holmes'Chambered Nautilus, The'Print: Book
1900-1945'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, concluding with a reading "Latter Day Warnings" for The...Charles Evans Oliver Wendell Holmes'Deacon's Masterpiece, Or, The Wonderful One-Hoss ...Print: Book
1900-1945"This volume was being read by Sir George Trevelyan when his last illness overtook him. CPT" [i.e. Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan]. Under this "He died on August 19th 1928...George Otto Trevelyan John PooleLittle Pedlington and the PedlingtoniansPrint: Book
1900-1945"This volume was being read by Sir George Trevelyan when his last illness came on him": MS note in the hand of Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan, GOT's son. George Otto Trevelyan Elizabeth Von ArnimChristopher and ColumbusPrint: Book


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