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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
 
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'And another one that I loved was when I had mumps and was in the san which had a very small library and I read Still She Wished for Company whic...Hilary Spalding Emily BronteWuthering HeightsPrint: Book
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'And another one that I loved was when I had mumps and was in the san which had a very small library and I read Still She Wished for Company whic...Hilary Spalding [medical books]Print: 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: '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: 'My father introduced me to the Forsyte Saga and I read all of that. Hunting Tower was the first John Buchan I read. John Dickson Carr – I loved...Hilary Spalding John GalsworthyForsyte SagaPrint: Book
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'My father introduced me to the Forsyte Saga and I read all of that. Hunting Tower was the first John Buchan I read. John Dickson Carr – I loved...Hilary Spalding John BuchanHunting TowerPrint: Book
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'My father introduced me to the Forsyte Saga and I read all of that. Hunting Tower was the first John Buchan I read. John Dickson Carr – I loved...Hilary Spalding John Dickson Carr Print: Book
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'She [mother] introduced me to Dornford Yates, and I devoured him when I was about 16.'Hilary Spalding Dornford YatesvariousPrint: 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: 'There’s a bit in my diary about Forever Amber which was notorious. My mother surprisingly read it first and let me read it. But my great friend ...Hilary Spalding Kathleen WindsorForever AmberPrint: Book
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'They [parents] subscribed to magazines which I read. Picture Post was one. And the Illustrated London News and the Tatler and I used to chop the...Hilary Spalding Picture PostPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'They [parents] subscribed to magazines which I read. Picture Post was one. And the Illustrated London News and the Tatler and I used to chop the...Hilary Spalding Illustrated London NewsPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'They [parents] subscribed to magazines which I read. Picture Post was one. And the Illustrated London News and the Tatler and I used to chop the...Hilary Spalding TatlerPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'They [parents] subscribed to magazines which I read. Picture Post was one. And the Illustrated London News and the Tatler and I used to chop the...Hilary Spalding Women's JournalPrint: Serial / periodical
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


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