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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'Into my mind flashed the "New York Times" headlines which I had read over breakfast that morning.'Vera Brittain New York TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'In a 'Yorkshire Post' article he subsequently described his three days on Willkie's campaign train, with its eleven cars and freight of one hundred politicians, journali...Vera Brittain Yorkshire PostPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Two days afterwards I wrote to Clare during an air raid, enclosing a paragraph about her parents from the "Star Man's Diary" and a short appreciation which I had vainly ...Vera Brittain "Star Man's Diary"Print: Unknown
1900-1945'She preferred to say - in words written ten years ago at the end of "The Waves" which might stand for her epitaph - "Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and un...Vera Brittain Virginia WoolfThe WavesPrint: Book, Unknown
1900-1945'I had not known Thornton Wilder, though I had been among the thousands who read "The Bridge of San Luis Rey".'Vera Brittain Thornton WilderBridge of San Luis Rey, ThePrint: Book, Unknown
1900-1945'"It is an hard matter," wrote John Bunyan in "The Pilgrim's Progress", "to go down into the Valley of Humiliation."'Vera Brittain John BunyanThe Pilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book, Unknown
1900-1945'In the "Evening Standard", Major-General Fuller commented acidly that the gigantic forces being raised in America suggested preparation for the next war rather than this...Vera Brittain John Frederick Charles Fullerarticle in the "Evening Standard"Print: Newspaper, Unknown
1900-1945'"The censorship here is so close that I depend for most of my information upon "Time" and "Life"," I wrote to New York that summer.'Vera Brittain "Time" Magazine Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown
1900-1945'This morning on opening my eyes I saw the noble vol [on Keats] delicately deposited by my side, while I slept, by Jessie's instructions (I live en vieux garçon, in the s...Joseph Conrad Sidney ColvinJohn Keats: His Life and Poetry, His Friends, Crit...Print: Book
1900-1945'This morning [Reginald Perceval] Gibbon's correspondence [on the aftermath of the battle of Caporetto] in the "D[aily]C[hronicle]" was very reserved.'Joseph Conrad Reginald Perceval Gibbonarticle published in "Daily Chronicle"Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'There was a study of you [André Gide] in the "Times". Have you seen it? It is intelligent up to a point and respectful.' Joseph Conrad article in "Times Literary Supplement"Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The weary Press caustically reported a current quip: "Good news at last! Two of our generals were captured at Tobruk!" and the "Sunday Express" philosopher, Nathaniel G...Vera Brittain Nathaniel Gubbinscomment in the "Sunday Express"Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Thank you very much for the books. Monahan I like. E[zra] P[ound] is certainly a poet but I am afraid I am too old and too wooden-headed to appreciate him as perhaps he ...Joseph Conrad Michael MonahanNew AdventuresPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Thank you very much for the books. Monahan I like. E[zra] P[ound] is certainly a poet but I am afraid I am too old and too wooden-headed to appreciate him as perhaps he ...Joseph Conrad Ezra PoundPavannes and DivisionsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Yes. I've seen "Contact's" [Alan Bott's] work. It is very good . But he's not the only one.' Joseph Conrad Alan Bott [pseud. "Contact"]An Airman's OutingsPrint: Book
1900-1945'According to R.C.K. Ensor's "Miniature History of the War", "the annihilating raid on Lubeck...and the raid of 1,130 bombers on Cologne...each marked an epoch" in Allied...Vera Brittain Robert Charles Kirkwood EnsorMiniature History of the WarPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am of course with you entirely both as to the matter and the expression of the Agricultural pamphlet. Thanks very much for sending me the copy.'Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyThe Land: A PleaPrint: Pamphlet
1900-1945'"The Green Mirror" reached me alright.[...] I didn't write to you about it as I expected almost every day to have you here for a talk about that and other things.'Joseph Conrad Hugh WalpoleThe Green MirrorPrint: Book
1900-1945'My warmest thanks for the inscribed copy which arrived yesterday. The first time I read the book was in 1908, the last was in '12 or early '13 when the copy disappeared ...Joseph Conrad Edmund GosseFather and Son:A Study of Two TemperamentsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I will stay in this farmhouse while the gas course lasts [...] and get the old peasant in the evenings to recite more "[Fables of] La Fontaine" to me, in the Béthune dia...Edmund Blunden unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book


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