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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park. Jan 27th 1942 J. Knox Taylor in the Chair.
1. In the absence of the Secretary the minutes of the last meeting were...		Kenneth F. Nicholson W. H. Auden[unspecified poetical works]Print: Book
1900-1945Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park. Jan 27th 1942 J. Knox Taylor in the Chair.
1. In the absence of the Secretary the minutes of the last meeting were...		Kenneth F. Nicholson W. H. Auden[unspecified poetical works]Print: Book
1900-1945'Thanks very much for the book and the "Spectator" page.[...] These are all delightful pieces. You must autograph the book for me.' Joseph Conrad W. H. (William Henry) Davieseither The Bird of Paradise and other Poems OR Na...Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Clifford's First and Last Catastrophe'George Eliot [pseud] W. Kingdom CliffordFirst and Last Castrophe, ThePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Henry James to W. Morton Fullerton, 9 August 1901: 'You speak of your "Cornhill" article as one always speaks and feels about one's potboilers; but that doesn't prevent m...Henry James W. Morton FullertonarticlePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to her publisher W. S. Williams, 13 July 1848:

'I have just read your article in the "John Bull"; it very clearly and fully explains the cau...		Charlotte Brontë W. S. Williams[article on ancient and modern painting]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I noticed, with pleasure, the insertion of your "Critique": but was very much mortified, - at seeing the pitiful conclusion which the Editor had foisted in,- in addition...Thomas Carlyle W. Scott Irving[poem celebrating peace at end of Napoleonic wars]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I noticed, with pleasure, the insertion of your "Critique": but was very much mortified, - at seeing the pitiful conclusion which the Editor had foisted in,- in addition...Thomas Carlyle W. Scott Irving[essays on Burns and monuments]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I've just finished reading "Liza of Lambeth" It is certainly worth reading--but whether it's worth talking about is another question. I at any rate have nothing to say e...Joseph Conrad W. Somerset MaughamLiza of LambethPrint: Book
1900-1945'Hudson's "Sparrow" is really first rate and just in the tone I expected. C'est une belle nature, which never falls short of its domain. One can depend upon him. The oth...Joseph Conrad W.(William) H.(Henry) HudsonThe London Sparrow in Kith and Kin: Poems of Anima...Print: Book
1900-1945'Hudson's "Sparrow" is really first rate and just in the tone I expected. C'est une belle nature, which never falls short of its domain. One can depend upon him. The oth...Joseph Conrad W.(William) H.(Henry) HudsonGreen Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest Print: Book
1900-1945'You shock me. Not by liking "The Way of all Flesh", but by liking "The Devil?s Garden" and "Fortitude" . . . . it is not excusable to lose your head about badness or ...Arnold Bennett W.B. MaxwellThe Devil's GardenPrint: Book
1900-1945'I wrote a fatherly letter to Hughie & told him the error of his ways & also that I didn’t like 'The Cath'. well enough even to say anything about it to him at all. . . ...Arnold Bennett W.B. MaxwellSpinster of this ParishPrint: Book
1800-1849'Now I will quit these dreary subjects, and tell you of a few nice books for you to read & like - The 1st Vol. of Campbell's life of Frederic the Great. The others [under...Sarah Harriet Burney W.B. StevensonHistorical and Descriptive Narrative of Twety Year...Print: Book
1850-1899'At the moment I am in the act of discovering ?W.B. Yeats?, the Irish poet, whose prose, to my mind, is just about equal to anything going round. I have been fascinated ...Arnold Bennett W.B. YeatsThe Celtic TwilightPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have not read that poem of R. Brownings. I saw the review in the Examiner, (no end of thanks to you for the said,) but don't think I've fairly read it yet!'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell W.C. DeVane[review of Browning's 'Christmas Eve and Easter-Da...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding W.C. Sellar1066 and All ThatPrint: Book
1900-1945'It may astonish you to learn that even thirty years ago?and more?"Harper?s" used to penetrate monthly into the savage wilderness of the Five Towns, and that the first li...Arnold Bennett W.D. HowellsunknownPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Read Channing on Napoleon'John Ruskin W.E. ChanningRemarks on the Character of Napoleon BonapartePrint: Book
1900-1945'In the 1920s Janet Hitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshlves of an orphanage, which included a huge collection of "drunken father deathbed c...Janet Hitchman W.G. CollingwoodThe Life of RuskinPrint: Book


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