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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'Within the next few days I read a new Gollancz pamphlet, "What Buchenwald Really Means". Vera Brittain Victor GollanczWhat Buchenwald Really MeansPrint: Pamphlet
1900-1945'In the "Left News" for July, 1944, Victor had also published a document from Underground France on the future of Germany.'Vera Brittain Victor Gollanczarticle in the "Left News"Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'In the "Left News" for July, 1944, Victor had also published a document from Underground France on the future of Germany.'Vera Brittain Victor GollanczArticle in the "Left News"Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'They could all, I thought, have been summed up by the glum description of barbarism in the book called "Leviathan" by the seventeenth-century philosopher, Thomas Hobbes....Vera Brittain Thomas HobbesLeviathanPrint: Book
1900-1945On March 14th the "News Chronicle's" correspondent, S. L. Solon, had called Cologne "End-of-the-World City".'Vera Brittain S. L. SolonArticle in the "News Chronicle"Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'To the "Evening Standard" Anne Matheson had contributed a later and similar description of Nuremberg.'Vera Brittain Anne MathesonArticle in the "Evening Standard"Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Even George Orwell, who had dismissed "Seed of Chaos" with contempt the previous year, now expressed deep misgivings in "The Observer" for April 8th.'Vera Brittain George OrwellArticle in "The Observer"Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'He told me later that the "New York Post" announced the conclusion of the war in Europe under the headline: "Now We Must Crush the Japs!"'George Catlin New York PostPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'But the real clue had been given by Howard Spring in an unpretentious article which appeared in "St. Martin's Review", the monthly magazine of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, ...Vera Brittain Howard SpringArticle in "St Martin's Review"Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'More stimulating was the reading of Somerset Maugham's short novel, "A Christmas Holiday".'Vera Brittain Somerset MaughamA Christmas HolidayPrint: Book
1900-1945'I recalled Ruskin's words in the Preface to "Sesame and Lilies": "Let heart-sickness pass beyond a certain point and the heart loses its life for ever."'Vera Brittain John RuskinSesame and LiliesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Several Norwegians spoke critically to me of John Steinbeck's recent novel, "The Moon is Down".'Vera Brittain John SteinbeckThe Moon is DownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have however, read Edwin Drood, and finished the hateful Cousin Pons.'James Lees-Milne Charles DickensEdwin DroodPrint: Book
1900-1945'You need have no fear about my looking after myself and behaving myself May, because I only go out about 3 nights a week, and then usually by myself. I either walk round...Albert Edward Mortlock French unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book, Newspaper
1900-1945'Pouring wet day, so I read the Chartreuse de Parme, and revelled in it.'James Lees-Milne Stendhal (pseud.)Chartreuse de Parme
1900-1945'Got up late for breakfast but felt so awful that Mary took my temperature which was over 100 and sent me straight back to bed, where I remained, dozing and reading — Tre...James Lees-Milne George Macaulay TrevelyanEnglish Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries ...Print: Book
1900-1945'Took the morning training from Euston to Carlisle, arriving at 4.30. Read Phineas Redeux all the way.'James Lees-Milne Anthony TrollopePhineas Redeux
1900-1945'All day I read and finished Rosamond Lehmann's novel, The Ballad and the Source, which Logan P.-S. thinks the best novel since Henry James. I daresay he is right and I a...James Lees-Milne Rosamond LehmannThe Ballad and the SourcePrint: Book
1900-1945'In the train I read the life of Matthew Bolton and James's indifferent little book on the Houses of Parliament. Very poor illustrations and it costs 15/-.'James Lees-Milne James Pope-HennessyHouses of ParliamentPrint: Book
1900-1945'This morning I sat in the back garden roasting myself in the sun and reading Fiske Kimball's Rococo book.'James Lees-Milne Fiske KimballThe Creation of the RococoPrint: Book


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