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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
 
1900-1945Many MS notes, some of which are transcribed from those of Lord Macaulay in another edition: "Macaulay's notes and marginal lines (on the outside margins) are transferred...George Otto Trevelyan Cornelius TacitusOpera omniaPrint: Book
1900-1945Many MS notes, incl. some copied from Lord Macaulay's own copy of Livy: "I copied these marginal notes, and lines, from Macaulay's Bipontine edition in the winter of 1910...George Otto Trevelyan Livy Historiorum libriPrint: Book
1900-1945MS notes, some evidently copied from Lord Macaulay's own marginalia in another volume. On p.145 Sir George writes: "I used to think this very fine at school. It now seems...George Otto Trevelyan Sallust Opera omniaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Even when Winifred could read with the effortless rapidity that she never lost, she found her own stories and poems more entertaining than the sentimental pieties of "Ch...Winifred Holtby Christie's Old Organ, Jessica's First Prayer, A Pe...Print: Book
1900-1945'One late evening in the dim firelight of our rooms at Oxford after the War, she turned from reading aloud to me Swinburne's "Super Flumina Babylonis" - a favourite poem ...Winifred Holtby Algernon Charles SwinburneSuper Flumina BabylonisPrint: Book
1900-1945'His injury had not been permanent, and he now sat day after day beside Winifred's bed, talking to her about Russian literature and reading aloud from "Crime and Punishme...George de Coundouroff Fyodor DostoyevskyCrime and PunishmentPrint: Book
1900-1945'In "The Leviathan" of Thomas Hobbes, one of the seventeenth-century philosophers whom we had studied in our classes on Political Science, she found for her quotation pag...Winifred Holtby Thomas HobbesThe LeviathanPrint: Book
1900-1945'Before that illumined moment of rich inspiration, Winifred had been experimenting with other kinds of writing, and studying such treasure-troves of style as the travel b...Winifred Holtby Walter RaleighunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'During our Oxford years the works to which she turned most frequently were Shakepeare's "Richard II", Raleigh's "Discovery of Guiana", Milton's "Areopagitica", the writi...Winifred Holtby William ShakespeareRichard IIPrint: Book
1900-1945'Just after leaving school, I had been plunged into the same tumult of agonised inquiry by reading Mrs. Humphry Ward's "Robert Elsmere".'Vera Brittain Mary WardRobert ElsmerePrint: Book, Unknown
1900-1945'I stayed behind in the waiting-room, reading a favourable review in "Punch" of Phyllis Bentley's newly published novel , "Inheritance", which Winifred had voted "magnifi...Vera Brittain PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'During my schooldays, which coincided with the dramatic climax of the suffrage movement, I had read Olive Schreiner and followed the militant campaigns with the exciteme...Vera Brittain Olive SchreinerunknownPrint: Unknown
1900-1945After reading "Living Alone" in 1923, Winifred wrote Stella a letter of appreciation. When no answer arrived she concluded that Stella Benson, like so many authors, put ...Winifred Holtby Stella BensonLiving AloneUnknown
1900-1945'"I read "The Runners" last week," he continued, and told her that he had advised John Lane to refuse it.'John Priestley Winifred HoltbyThe RunnersManuscript: Manuscript of an unpublished novel.
1900-1945'Winifred did not care, for she was reading Conrad's "Suspense" - a noble and spacious book which made the early nineteenth century come alive for her in a clear yet fain...Winifred Holtby Joseph ConradSuspensePrint: Book
1900-1945'Jean's friend lent her George Moore's "Heloise and Abelard" - "one of the loveliest; all that my Wyclif book should have been and was not," Winifred confessed, lamenting...Winifred Holtby George MooreHeloise and AbelardPrint: Book
1900-1945 . . . There have been 2 supreme books since your regretted departure. G. Moore’s 'Avowals' and the letters of Chekhov . . .Arnold Bennett Anton ChekhovLettersPrint: Book
1900-1945'But it was in a "Good Housekeeping" article on "How to Enjoy Bad Health" that she quoted the remarks with which he prefaced his announcement that she could not hope to l...Vera Brittain Winifred HoltbyGood Housekeeping magazine "How to Enjoy Bad Healt...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The book arrived by the first post.[...] [it] might be described as an appalling indictment of the middle classes--[...] But in the introspective silence that came over...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyA CommentaryPrint: Book
1900-1945'Send me Lane's exact address and I will forward him the MS of "[The Holy] Mountain". I've just finished re-reading the whole. My impression--which you know of--is genera...Joseph Conrad Stephen ReynoldsThe Holy MountainManuscript: Sheet


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