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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‘Thanks very much indeed for the letter and Lit. Sups, and especially for "Satires of Circumstance". I had not got it or ordered it but had often been thinking of doi...Charles Hamilton Sorley Times Literary SupplementPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945‘Thanks very much indeed for the letter and Lit. Sups, and especially for "Satires of Circumstance". I had not got it or ordered it but had often been thinking of doi...Charles Hamilton Sorley Thomas HardySatires of Circumstance: Lyrics and Reveries; with...Print: Book
1900-1945‘Thanks very much indeed for the letter and Lit. Sups, and especially for "Satires of Circumstance". I had not got it or ordered it but had often been thinking of doi...Charles Hamilton Sorley Thomas HardyThe Dynasts: A Drama of the Napoleonic WarsPrint: Book
1900-1945‘I am still revelling in "The Dynasts". The amount of historical reading and travelling that must have gone to compose such a work must have been tremendous … the cha...Charles Hamilton Sorley Thomas HardyThe Dynasts: A Drama of the Napoleonic WarsPrint: Book
1900-1945‘I have started to read again, having read nothing all the closing months of last year. I have discovered a man called D. H. Lawrence who knows the way to write, and...Charles Hamilton Sorley David Herbert Lawrence[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945‘I have only just arrived here: the last ten days having been occupied in reading "The Egoist" in the Orderly Room at Moore [Barracks, Shorncliffe]. It was my sad fat...Charles Hamilton Sorley George MeredithThe EgoistPrint: Book
1900-1945‘I have finished and laid by "The Egoist". I see now that Meredith belongs to that class of novelists with whom I do not usually get on so well (e.g. Dickens), who cr...Charles Hamilton Sorley George MeredithThe EgoistPrint: Book
1900-1945‘I saw Rupert Brooke’s death in the "Morning Post". The "Morning Post", which has always hitherto disapproved of him, is now loud in its praises because he has confor...Charles Hamilton Sorley Rupert Brooke[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945‘I saw Rupert Brooke’s death in the "Morning Post". The "Morning Post", which has always hitherto disapproved of him, is now loud in its praises because he has confor...Charles Hamilton Sorley The Morning PostPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945‘I have just been censoring letters: which hardly puts one in the mood for writing … The reading of a hundred letters has brought home to me one need. Could you send ...Charles Hamilton Sorley [letters]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945‘We are billeted in a town of single-line tramways and mean streets: four-foot square vegetable gardens, where plaintive cabbages wither: cobbles, tenements and cats ...Charles Hamilton Sorley Sunday TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945‘You don’t read "The Daily Mail", I suppose; but reading it out here opens one’s eyes to the dangerous influence the press is beginning to arrogate and may ultimately...Charles Hamilton Sorley Daily MailPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I’ve finished The History of the Fabian Society and I now return it to you with many thanks for the pleasure it has given me.'Herbert Edward Read Edward Reynolds PeaseHistory of the Fabian SocietyPrint: Book
1900-1945‘I am in a condition such as demands amusement as a cure: that is, I am an invalid—though not a despondent one. I have been struggling with … bronchitis for more th...Herbert Edward Read George MeredithOne of Our ConquerorsPrint: Book
1900-1945‘I’ve got a lovely little book—The Freudian Wish [Edwin B. Holt, 1915]—the pathology of thought, etc. Also a fine volume of poems by D. H. Lawrence.’Herbert Edward Read Edwin Bissell HoltThe Freudian WishPrint: Book
1900-1945‘I am afraid the New Age is rather poor just now— several of its best writers are busy in the Army. But it is the only paper I know that is full of fresh ideas; and ...Herbert Edward Read The New AgePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I am a week late in thanking you for your parcel and letter … and specially for the book of sonnets which has been constantly either in my pocket or hand. It is just...Charles Hamilton Sorley Anon Anon[sonnets]Print: Book
1900-194524 June 1916 ‘I came to this dreadful place a week ago. The Medical Board gave me “light duty”—but they don’t understand the term here. We get up at 5.30 a.m. and a...Herbert Edward Read Bernard ShawAndrocles and the LionPrint: Book
1900-1945'God's in his heaven, all's right with the world, and I'm feeling quite Browningesque. I haven't got my movement orders yet, but I've been posted to the 10th Battn....Herbert Edward Read George MooreEsther WatersPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Many thanks and belated for the parcel you sent about a week ago and your letter. The apples are always a good thing to have and these remained fresh. I have not ans...Charles Hamilton Sorley Elizabeth GaskellCranfordPrint: Book


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