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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'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ...Helen Crawfurd Thomas HardyJude the ObscurePrint: Book
1900-1945'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ...Helen Crawfurd Thomas HardyTess of the d'UrbervillesPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ...Helen Crawfurd Thomas HardyUnder the Greenwood TreePrint: Book
1900-1945'Weaver-novelist William Holt extolled the standard greats ("Noble Carlyle; virtuous Tolstoi; wise Bacon; jolly Rabelais; towering Plato...") and, having taught himself G...William Holt Thomas Hardy Print: Book
1900-1945'[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "Then, without scarcely a bridge-passage, I was deep i...Neville Cardus Thomas Hardy[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom and became (at age forty) a professional author. At f...A.E. Coppard Thomas Hardy[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom and became (at age forty) a professional author. At f...Alfred Edgar Coppard Thomas HardyJude the ObscurePrint: Book
1900-1945'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Bennett, Galsworthy, Edith Wharton and Willa Cather'.Herbert Ernest Bates Thomas Hardy[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'To her father she wrote about her term work, the poetry she was reading and with details about new publications. "Do", she urged him, "try to get hold of 'The London Mer...Rosamond Lehmann Thomas Hardy[poem in the London Mercury]Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Long sections of [Thomas] Hardy's "Memoir" had been read out to two of the [radical society (?London Corresponding Society)] meetings to commemorate the acquittal of the...Thomas HardyMemoir of Thomas Hardy, Founder of, and Secretary ...Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Charlotte [Mew] [...] was a passionate reader of Thomas Hardy'.Charlotte Mew Thomas Hardy Print: Unknown
1900-1945Penelope Fitzgerald relates how, during Charlotte Mew's stay at his home in December 1918, Thomas Hardy 'read some of his own poems to her, and she read him something whi...Thomas Hardy Thomas HardypoemsUnknown
1900-1945After Thomas Hardy's death on 11 January 1928, his literary executor Sydney Cockerell 'asked Florence [Hardy] to read aloud to him, chapter by chapter, the manuscript of ...Florence Hardy Thomas HardyMemoirsManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Bennett selected the things that interested him - notably novelists such as Henry James, Thomas Hardy, and his friend George Paston. It was through a review of a book by...Arnold Bennett Thomas HardyunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'So that, whatever may have been its deeper cause, the love which filled my imagination was of a kind that seemed, to me, to have little to do with what I meant by sex. "...Norman Nicholson Thomas HardyUnder the Greenwood TreePrint: Book
1900-1945'I began now to borrow from the Sanatorium Library books on nature and the countryside -Hardy, Hudson, Jefferies, Gilbert White; books on birds, animals, snakes and trees...Norman Nicholson Thomas Hardy[nature and the countryside]Print: Book
1900-1945'On the wall at the side of the chimney Dad put up the bookshelves which Dodie began to fill with secondhand penny books. Over the years we had Conrad and Wodehouse, Eric...family of Rose GambleThomas Hardy[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'You might, if you care, read my criticism of Hardy?s new novel in Wednesday next?s Woman ?though it contains little actual criticism, I imagine it to give a sort of impr...Arnold Bennett Thomas HardyJude the ObscurePrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 7 January 1915: 'We [Virginia Woolf and Janet Case] talked about [...] life in London & Hardy's poems which she can't re-read -- Too melancholy & sordid -- & the...Janet Case Thomas HardypoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 3 September 1918: 'Last night, L[eonard]. read Hardy's poems aloud.'Leonard Woolf Thomas HardypoemsPrint: Book


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