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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 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'Thank you for the fine present.[...] While reading delightedly this little work which shines with so soft a brightness, I have for a moment been able to forget the passa...Joseph Conrad Henry JamesThe OutcryPrint: Book
1900-1945'I hadn't turned over the 3rd page when I let out a whistle of respectful admiration.' Hence follows a page of praise with one minor reservation.Joseph Conrad Edward GarnettLords and MastersPrint: playscript
1900-1945'I have read the MS. I have read it twice.' Hence follow 20 lines of quite strong but constructive criticism.Joseph Conrad Francis Warrington Dawson(probably) The Purser's Shilling an earlier versio...Manuscript: typescript (see additional information
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
1900-1945'Very many thanks for your kind and friendly notion of sending me "The Brothers Karamazov". I am quite simply astonsihed to see how you and your collaborator have succee...Joseph Conrad Jacques Copeau (and Jean Croue, after Fyodor DostoievskiLes Frères Karamazov: une drame en 5 actes Dostoi...Print: playscript
1900-1945'I admit, then, that I read and admired "The Immoralist" all of two years ago. Davray gave it to me. I have not said anything but someone has filched my copy; and I wante...Joseph Conrad André GideL'ImmoralistePrint: Book
1900-1945'I admit, then, that I read and admired "The Immoralist" all of two years ago. Davray gave it to me. I have not said anything but someone has filched my copy; and I wante...Joseph Conrad André GidePrétextes (OR Nouveaux prétextes) Print: Book
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'I don’t think there was anything that I wasn’t allowed to read. It was only when I went to school to boarding school and all my friends were rea...Hilary Spalding Charles KingsleyThe Water BabiesPrint: Book
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'I don’t think there was anything that I wasn’t allowed to read. It was only when I went to school to boarding school and all my friends were rea...Hilary Spalding Vicky BaumHotel BerlinPrint: Book
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'I don’t think there was anything that I wasn’t allowed to read. It was only when I went to school to boarding school and all my friends were rea...Hilary Spalding Thomas Palgrave (ed)Golden TreasuryPrint: Book
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'He [her father] gave me a copy of Lou Wallis's Ben Hur in a slip case and I put in my diary which you’ll find there [points to MS diary] that I ...Hilary Spalding Lew WallaceBen HurPrint: Book
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'The one [book] that I was given was Bernard Shaw. We went into a bookshop and my father said you can have any book you like which was very unwis...Hilary Spalding George Bernard ShawCollected PlaysPrint: Book
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'The school library had a reasonably wide selection – we could take out one fiction and one non-fiction a week but the English teacher would vet ...Hilary Spalding Hervey AllenAnthony AdversePrint: Book
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'We [Hilary and schoolfellows] used to recommend things to each other a lot, and we had crazes – Georgette Heyer, D.K. Broster, Cronin, Axel Munt...Hilary Spalding Georgette Heyer[novels]Print: Book
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'We [Hilary and schoolfellows] used to recommend things to each other a lot, and we had crazes – Georgette Heyer, D.K. Broster, Cronin, Axel Munt...Hilary Spalding D.K. Broster[novels]Print: Book
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'We [Hilary and schoolfellows] used to recommend things to each other a lot, and we had crazes – Georgette Heyer, D.K. Broster, Cronin, Axel Munt...Hilary Spalding A.J. Cronin[novels]Print: Book
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'We [Hilary and schoolfellows] used to recommend things to each other a lot, and we had crazes – Georgette Heyer, D.K. Broster, Cronin, Axel Munt...Hilary Spalding Axel Munter[novels]Print: Book
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'We [Hilary and schoolfellows] used to recommend things to each other a lot, and we had crazes – Georgette Heyer, D.K. Broster, Cronin, Axel Munt...Hilary Spalding Hugh Walpole[novels]Print: Book
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'We [Hilary and schoolfellows] used to recommend things to each other a lot, and we had crazes – Georgette Heyer, D.K. Broster, Cronin, Axel Munt...Hilary Spalding Francis Brett Young[novels]Print: Book


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