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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'But it was in a "Good Housekeeping" article on "How to Enjoy Bad Health" that she quoted the remarks with which he prefaced his announcement that she could not hope to l...Vera Brittain Winifred HoltbyGood Housekeeping magazine "How to Enjoy Bad Healt...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Not until I read the fictitious account of this consultation four years afterwards in "South Riding" did I realise that the diagnosis then given her amounted to a verdic...Vera Brittain Winifred HoltbySouth RidingPrint: Book
1900-1945'At the time of her death I had read only part of "South Riding", which was to bring her back to me, and I found no reason to change the words which I had written in my n...Vera Brittain Winifred HoltbySouth RidingPrint: typescript
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue: 23.6.36
    Francis E Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read and, with the addition of No. 7, ap...		Charles E. Stansfield Winifred HoltbySouth RidingManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Another lovely day: almost too hot to do anything. I've been depressed all day after reading Churchill's speech. It's a grim thought that in the event of an invasion the...Winston Churchill[speech]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Winston Churchill had been Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Baldwin Government of 1924, which now, after five years of office, sought re-election. In "The Gathering S...Vera Brittain Winston ChurchillThe Gathering StormPrint: Book
1900-1945'On Sunday morning Blair and I left Hospital. We drove to the McCormicks' Bungalow, and since then I've been having a real slack time. I am reading The Crisis by Wi...Robert Dunlop Smith Winston ChurchillThe CrisisPrint: Book
1900-1945'On Sunday morning Blair and I left Hospital. We drove to the McCormicks' Bungalow, and since then I've been having a real slack time. I am reading The Crisis by Wi...Robert Dunlop Smith Winston ChurchillThe CrossingPrint: Book
1900-1945'She was deep in the writings of Father Tyrrel, of Bergson and of William James during these years'.Mary Augusta Ward Wlliam James Print: Book
1900-1945'I enjoyed the poem ? please send all the new ones ? I always carry ?madrigal? in my pocket!' Benjamin Britten Wulff Scherchen[poem]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business of reading and writing, with a keen critical intere...Rosamond Lehmann Wystan Hugh Auden Print: Book
1900-1945'Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James Joyce with no expectation that he would enjoy him, ...Philip Larkin Wystan Hugh Auden[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Although Larkin had first read them [Auden and Isherwood] at KHS [his school], it wasn't until he reached Oxford that he began fully to appreciate their irony and ebulli...Philip Larkin Wystan Hugh AudenPoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Although Larkin had first read them [Auden and Isherwood] at KHS [his school], it wasn't until he reached Oxford that he began fully to appreciate their irony and ebulli...Philip Larkin Wystan Hugh AudenOrators, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Although Larkin had first read them [Auden and Isherwood] at KHS [his school], it wasn't until he reached Oxford that he began fully to appreciate their irony and ebulli...Philip Larkin Wystan Hugh AudenLook, Stranger!Print: Book
1900-1945'Although Larkin had first read them [Auden and Isherwood] at KHS [his school], it wasn't until he reached Oxford that he began fully to appreciate their irony and ebulli...Philip Larkin Wystan Hugh AudenJournal of an Airman, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I had by this time [his mid-teens] also struck up a friendship with a young, unemployed, linotype operator, six or seven years older than myself. He lived in a street at...Charles Causley Wystan Hugh Auden Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting 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 wer...		[a member of the XII Book Club – one of Isabel Taylor, Roger Moore, Margaret Dilks, A. G. Joselin, or F. E. Pollard] Wystan Hugh Auden[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park. Jan 27th 1942 J. Knox Taylor in the Chair.
[...]
5. The subject was a provocative one “Modern Poetry” & we...		[a member of the XII Book Club – one of Isabel Taylor, Roger Moore, Margaret Dilks, A. G. Joselin, or F. E. Pollard] Wystan Hugh Auden[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Reading the "Les filles des platre" by M. Xavier de Montepin it is like the generality of French Novels, and does not give a very exalted notions of French morals; the m...Albert Battiscombe Xavier Aymon de, Count MontepinLes Filles de platre. Les trois debutsPrint: Book


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