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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'He [Joseph Conrad] would read to me for long periods and make birds and other things out of sheets of paper which he folded with great dexterity. [...] His choice of boo...Joseph Conrad James Fenimore CooperThe Pathfinder or The Inland SeaPrint: Book
1900-1945'The writer [Ford Madox Ford] never saw Conrad read any book of memoirs except those of Maxime Ducamp and the Correspondence of Flaubert; those we read daily together ove...Joseph Conrad Horace George Montagu Rumbold, 9th Baronet Recollections of a Diplomatist AND/OR Further Rec...Print: Book
1900-1945'It was during all these years that he [Conrad] read. Men at sea read an inordinate amount.[...] A large percentage of the letters received by writers from readers come f...Joseph Conrad Walter BesantThe Orange GirlPrint: Book
1900-1945[Campbell is describing entering a German dugout captured after a successful offensive] 'Their home was very like one of ours, maps and pictures stuck on the walls, sh...Patrick James Campbell  Print: Book
1900-1945'Gradually, very gradually, Australians will realize what they owe to England. How all my English blood courses through my veins when I read of England's responses to the...Kenneth Julian Faithfull Bickersteth unknown unknownunknownPrint: NewspaperUnknown
1900-1945'... at about half past two walking up Oxford Street I saw Bumpus's, the famous bookshop. There was an exhibition on there free of charge, the library and papers of John ...Cyril Lionel Robert James John Locke Manuscript: Manuscript notebook.
1900-1945'We reached his room about eleven. To do what? Not a blessed thing but to sit before a fire and talk and read again. He read me extracts from a book by Mr. Gilbert Franka...Cyril Lionel Robert James Gilbert Frankau Print: Book
1900-1945'We reached his room about eleven. To do what? Not a blessed thing but to sit before a fire and talk and read again.... On his shelf was ... Edmund Rostand's [italics] Cy...Cyril Lionel Robert James Edmond RostandCyrano de BergeracPrint: Book
1900-1945'When I reached home someone had dropped a letter in the box telling me to come over on Sunday between eleven and twelve because she would be at home then. I went, we wen...Cyril Lionel Robert James Luigi PirandelloSix Characters in Search of an AuthorPrint: Book
1900-1945'Frank was reading The Times and the first account of the battle that we had seen, the others were sleeping. I heard Frank's short bitter laugh, not a cheerful sound at...Patrick James Campbell The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Once or twice I left the safety of the trench and went out alone, down the hill towards Sailly-le-Sec ... I told myself that I might obtain some useful information ... B...Patrick James Campbell  Print: Book
1900-1945'Three o'clock. I was trying to read my book, but I did not take in what I was reading. Instead of words on the page, I saw Germans, Germans coming over the crest, lines ...Patrick James Campbell  Print: Book
1900-1945'"Read that," [Major Cecil] said, when he came to where I was standing. It was an envelope, an ordinary envelope, addressed in Cherry's handwriting to the O.C. A Batte...Patrick James Campbell  Print: Orders for the day.
1900-1945'The tent flaps were laced over, the rain had ceased, the guns were silent and Jimmy Harding lay motionless. I ate slowly and dully, staring at my candle. I took my Palgr...Edwin Stephen Campion Vaughan Alexander Smith"Barbara"Print: Book
1900-1945'I said rather dazedly aloud - to Beston - I wonder what time the next train to London goes - & a stranger with a time-table told me. I had just time to catch it. I had a...Violet Asquith Robert GreenePandostoPrint: Book
1900-1945'Your work on my novel ['Whom God Hath Joined'.] is now over, I am thankful to say, & so is mine too, nearly.... Had to read it aloud to the sex. So nice & cheerful to r...Arnold Bennett Arnold BennettWhom God Hath JoinedPrint: Book
1900-1945'There is what I consider a pretty good 5 Towns story [‘From One Generation to Another’] in the October London Magazine. But they have given it a rotten air by splitting...Arnold Bennett unknown unknown[article in London Magazine]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'At present I am reading Goethe’s conversations with Eckerman. they are nearly as good as Sam Johnson, though in an entirely different vein. You ought to read 'Wilhelm M...Arnold Bennett Johann Wolfgang GoetheConversations of Goethe with Eckerman and SoretPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have corrected all the proofs of The Old Wives Tale — 578pp. I am sure Tertia is wrong about those two chapters. I deliberately lowered the tension in the last ...Arnold Bennett Guy de MaupassantUne Vie Print: Book
1900-1945'I have corrected all the proofs of The Old Wives Tale — 578pp. I am sure Tertia is wrong about those two chapters. I deliberately lowered the tension in the last ...Arnold Bennett Arnold BennettThe Old Wives TalePrint: Book


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