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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'The following was the programme for the evening Viz a paper by W.S. Rowntree on W.W. Jacobs' works. C.E. Stansfield, C.I. Evans & W.S. Rowntree gave illustrative readin...Charles Evans William Wymark Jacobs Print: Book
1900-1945'The following was the programme for the evening Viz a paper by W.S. Rowntree on W.W. Jacobs' works. C.E. Stansfield, C.I. Evans & W.S. Rowntree gave illustrative readin...Walter Rowntree William Wymark Jacobs Print: Book
1900-1945'At the foot of the bed was an oak "library table" [...]. There were several piles of books on it, W. W. Jacobs for light reading, de Maupassant, Flaubert, Galsworthy, Cu...Joseph Conrad William Wymark Jacobs Print: Book
1850-1899'Clouds blowing over which increased as the day went on and decided me not to go to the Alpe. A good deal bored. Fortunately I found "Many Cargoes" and read it.' Gertrude Bell William Wymark JacobsMany CargoesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read Mrs Murphy by Frank Richardson
Read Ship's Coy by WW Jacobs.'		William Thomas William Wymark JacobsShip's CompanyPrint: Book
1900-1945'10 [a.m.] service then walked ... Read Sea Urchins by Jacobs.'William Thomas William Wymark JacobsSea UrchinsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Wed. Lovely day. Won at bridge. Nil by mail. Read Dialstone Lane by Jacobs.'William Thomas William Wymark JacobsDialstone LanePrint: Book
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
[...]
B. General.
Hist.y of our own Times. '85–11. Gooch
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Felix Holt – [G...		Albert Ruskin Cook William Young FullertonPractice of Christ's PresencePrint: Book
1900-1945'Mr Binns then read a paper on W.S. Landor which was followed by a reading by Mrs Edminson, a paper by William [?] Harris & other readings by other members'.William [?] Harris William [?] Harris[paper on W.S. Landor]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I am very deep in Lord Stowell's "Reports", and if it were wartime I should officiate as Judge of the Admiralty Court. It was a fine business to make a public law for al...Sydney Smith William, Baron Stowell Scott[reports of cases in the Admiralty Court]Print: Unknown
1850-1899
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 Wilmot John Eardley Eardley (ed)Reminiscences of the late Thomas Assheton Smith, e...Print: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding Wilton ColeSpeech and SoundPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding Winifred DarchEleanor in the FifthPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 1 February 1940: 'I'd like to look at South Riding [...] W[inifred]. H[oltby]. was a barrel organ writer [...] I'm judging WH only on ...Virginia Woolf Winifred Holtbystudy on Virginia WoolfPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 5 October 1933: '[At Labour Party Conference, Hastings] I talked to Pethick L.; a frost-bitten blue eyed little old man now; & he was reading Holtby on V. W. You...Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence Winifred Holtbystudy of Virginia WoolfPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 9 February 1940: 'For some reason hope has revived. Now what served as bait? [...] I think it was largely reading Stephen [Spender]'s autobiography [published Spri...Virginia Woolf Winifred HoltbySouth RidingPrint: Book
1900-1945'In some respects this little work of criticism is the profoundest of Winifred's books.'Vera Brittain Winifred HoltbyVirginia WoolfPrint: Book
1900-1945'"I am going to call attention in this department," it ran, "to the fact that the most informing - and upsetting - book to read to-day on the Abyssinian crisis is "Mandoa...May Lamberton-Becker Winifred HoltbyMandoa, Mandoa!Print: Book
1900-1945'In a short vignette called "Harking Back to Long Ago", Winifred describes how she and Grace, aged four and six and a half, lay awake on Christmas Eve gazing through the ...Vera Brittain Winifred HoltbyHarking Back to Long AgoUnknown
1900-1945'"I read "The Runners" last week," he continued, and told her that he had advised John Lane to refuse it.'John Priestley Winifred HoltbyThe RunnersManuscript: Manuscript of an unpublished novel.


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