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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'I told the Doctor, my Writings might amuse, but his made the World the wiser and the better, as I had had the Pleasure of reading them.'Laetitia Pilkington Stephen Hales[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 12 September: 'Lytton drove off an hour ago; I have been sitting here, unable to read or collect myself -- such is the wreckage dealt by 4 days of conversation [....Lytton Strachey Stephen Hobhouse and A. Fenner Brockway, edsEnglish Prisons Today. Being the Report of the Pri...Print: Book
1900-1945'I like autobiography and I love a good thriller - I can't bear funny books other than Stephen Leacock. I don't like a man who sets out to be funny.'Stephen LeacockunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Down town with Dad and Mum in morning. Gally and Leon in for tea and dinner. Dad read "Literary Lapses" after dinner — very bon! Bed early.'Cuthbert George Knocker Stephen LeacockLiterary LapsesPrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'Down town with Dad and Mum in morning. Gally and Leon in for tea and dinner. Dad read "Literary Lapses" after dinner — very bon! Bed early.'Guy Mainwaring Knocker Stephen LeacockLiterary LapsesPrint: BookUnknown
1850-1899Thomas Hardy to Sir George Douglas, 3 March 1898: "'[Stephen Phillips's] Poems was strongly recommended to me, & I bought him, but ... am bound to say that I was woefully...Thomas Hardy Stephen PhillipsPoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945'You have given me a very invidious task.[...]. Well I have read all your copy. And the result of all my extreme fastidiousness is enclosed in the envelope. But my dear ...Joseph Conrad Stephen ReynoldsHow 'Twas: Short Stories and Small Travels.Manuscript: UnknownUnknown
1900-1945'So I will only tell you that the 1st instalment of the novel ["The Holy Mountain"] is brilliantly effective.'Joseph Conrad Stephen ReynoldsThe Holy MountainPrint: Serial / periodical
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
1900-1945'There are books one seems to have read before, and books one doesn't want to read, books that one reads with annoyance, pleasure, exasperation or wonder; but this, your ...Joseph Conrad Stephen ReynoldsA Poor Man's HousePrint: Book
1900-1945'All the same I've read your two short stories. Very good both. Very good indeed. But I am not going to think out a string of complimentary phrases for you. You are a big...Joseph Conrad Stephen ReynoldsunknownManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I am [...] reading and dipping into and re-dipping into your blue volume ["The Holy Mountain"]. Fact is I've just banged it down this minute--and I shan't look at it now...Joseph Conrad Stephen ReynoldsThe Holy MountainPrint: Book
1900-1945'I must thank you for the "B[lack]wood" where your "Puffin" was really interesting.'Joseph Conrad Stephen ReynoldsThe Puffin (uncertain)Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I have the read the two July articles just before that period [of depression or at least writer's block] began. Evidently my dearest boy it is your synthesis, of course ...Joseph Conrad Stephen ReynoldsunidentifiedPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The volume is very emphatically all right. In many respects better than I expected.' Hence follows a page of strong but constructive criticism.Joseph Conrad Stephen Reynolds (and Bob and Tom Woolley)Seems So! A Working Class View of PoliticsPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 20 April 1935: 'The scene has now changed to Rodmell [...] Good Friday was a complete fraud -- rain & more rain. I tried walking along the bank [...] Then I came...Virginia Woolf Stephen SpenderThe Destructive ElementPrint: Book
1900-1945'I had by this time [his mid-teens] also struck up a friendship with a young, unemployed, linotype operator, six or seven years older than myself. He lived in a street at...Charles Causley Stephen Spender Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: marginal pencil annotations throughout the book, either English or Persian, mainly appear to comment or disagree with translations eg. p.35 one line of text...John Drummond Erskine Stephen WestonA specimen of the conformity of the European langu...Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park. Jan 27th 1942 J. Knox Taylor in the Chair.
1. In the absence of the Secretary the minutes of the last meeting wer...		[a member of the XII Book Club – one of Isabel Taylor, Roger Moore, Margaret Dilks, A. G. Joselin, or F. E. Pollard] Steven Spender[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park. Jan 27th 1942 J. Knox Taylor in the Chair.
[...]
5. The subject was a provocative one “Modern Poetry” & we...		[a member of the XII Book Club – one of Isabel Taylor, Roger Moore, Margaret Dilks, A. G. Joselin, or F. E. Pollard] Steven Spender[unknown]Print: Book


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