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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'Thank you for the book. So judicious, so interesting, so touching--why shouldn't I say so when I have been touched?'Joseph Conrad Henri GhéonNos DirectionsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Phew! This [ "The Trial of Jeanne d'Arc" ] is fine. Just one word as the curtain falls for the last time.[...]. I'll with your leave keep the MS for 3 days before I read...Joseph Conrad Edward GarnettThe Trial of Jeanne d'Arc Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The book ["Siren Land"]'s certain to be well noticed -- maybe attacked too; but that's no harm. I've been delighted. There are mighty fine things there.' Joseph Conrad Norman DouglasSiren LandPrint: Book
1900-1945'Of course it ["The Patrician"] isn't pure aesthetics (only Flaubert's "Salammbo" among novels is that) but even on that ground alone you have done a very fine thing.' He...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyThe PatricianPrint: Book
1900-1945'No end of thanks for the little vol: so charming inside and outside--in its slender body containing a gently melodious soul. I see quite a new aspect of you in these few...Joseph Conrad Arthur SymonsunidentifiedPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thanks for the little book ["Light and Twilight"] so full of good things. You know I have a prediliction for your prose with its quiet,flowing felicity of phrase and wha...Joseph Conrad Edward ThomasLight and TwilightPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thanks very much for the books. You are indeed very good to me. Hudson's volume is fine, very fine, infinitely loveable, and as one reads on, one feels one's affection i...Joseph Conrad W.H.(William Henry) HudsonA Shepherd's Life: Impressions of the South Wiltsh...Print: Book
1900-1945'"François" is quite good. Very genuine touches all along and quite telling bits here and there.'Joseph Conrad unknown  Print: Book
1900-1945'W.S. Rowntree read a paper on Dante & Florence [,] H.R. Smith explained the Vita Nuova from which Mrs W.H. Smith & Mrs Edminson read selections'.Walter Rowntree Walter Rowntree[paper on Dante & Florence]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'W.S. Rowntree read a paper on Dante & Florence [,] H.R. Smith explained the Vita Nuova from which Mrs W.H. Smith & Mrs Edminson read selections'.Elizabeth Smith Dante AlighieriLa Vita NuovaPrint: Book
1900-1945'W.S. Rowntree read a paper on Dante & Florence [,] H.R. Smith explained the Vita Nuova from which Mrs W.H. Smith & Mrs Edminson read selections'.Elizabeth Edminson Dante AlighieriLa Vita NuovaPrint: Book
1900-1945'W.S. Rowntree read a paper on Dante & Florence [,] H.R. Smith explained the Vita Nuova from which Mrs W.H. Smith & Mrs Edminson read selections'.Howard R. Smith Dante AlighieriLa Vita NuovaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Miss Marriage explained fully with aid of diagrams, Dante's progress through the Inferno, selections from which were read by other members. Mr Edminson read a paper on t...Alfred Rawlings E.H. PlumptreCommedia and Canzoniere of Dante AlighieriPrint: Book
1900-1945'Miss Marriage explained fully with aid of diagrams, Dante's progress through the Inferno, selections from which were read by other members. Mr Edminson read a paper on t...Mebers of XII Book ClubDante AlighieriInfernoPrint: Book
1900-1945'Miss Marriage explained fully with aid of diagrams, Dante's progress through the Inferno, selections from which were read by other members. Mr Edminson read a paper on t...Members of XII Book ClubDante AlighieriPurgatorioPrint: Book
1900-1945'Miss Marriage explained fully with aid of diagrams, Dante's progress through the Inferno, selections from which were read by other members. Mr Edminson read a paper on t...Frederick Edminson Frederick Edminson[paper on Dante's Purgatorio]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Miss Marriage explained fully with aid of diagrams, Dante's progress through the Inferno, selections from which were read by other members. Mr Edminson read a paper on t...Frederick Edminson Dante AlighieriPurgatorioPrint: Book
1900-1945'Miss Marriage explained fully with aid of diagrams, Dante's progress through the Inferno, selections from which were read by other members. Mr Edminson read a paper on t...Miss Marriage Dante AlighieriInfernoPrint: Book
1900-1945'5. The Club now considered the subject for the evening - Berkshire - & the opening paper was by H.M. Wallis who touched upon the History of the County in his inimitable ...Rosamund Wallis Thomas of Reading[tale about murders in Reading]Print: Book
1900-1945'What I set out to say was that all these delays, vexing as they were, gave me the time to read "The Downfall of the Gods" three times from end to end. As to pages and ps...Joseph Conrad Hugh CliffordThe Downfall of the GodsPrint: Book


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