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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
 
1900-1945I have read the whole of Jane Austen and think of beginning over again. What a perfect woman - not only a writer - and what a sham she makes all this female emancip...Freya Stark Jane AustenNorthanger AbbeyPrint: Book
1900-1945I have read the whole of Jane Austen and think of beginning over again. What a perfect woman - not only a writer - and what a sham she makes all this female emancip...Freya Stark Jane AustenPersuasionPrint: Book
1900-1945I have just started my “Dombey & Son” having at last reached a place where books are not very plentiful. But it is not long enough to last for many a day.Arthur Morris Charles DickensDombey and SonPrint: Book
1900-1945I have just read a 1/- book — History of our own Times 1885-1913. It is a kind of Lords Modern Europe written in a somewhat different style and embracing the whole ...Arthur Morris George Peabody GoochHistory of Our Time, 1885-1913
1900-1945I am wading through “Barry Lyndon” the first book of Thackeray’s I have ever got into and I don’t find it at all too bad.Arthur Morris William Makepeace ThackerayThe Luck of Barry LyndonPrint: Book
1900-1945If you ever pass the free library I should pop in as most of the illustrated weeklies have these maps each week. While on the subject of libraries — I think you wou...Arthur Morris Arnold BennettHelen of the High HandPrint: Book
1900-1945I should like you to read the long article in the December number of Blackwood’s Magazine although it costs 2/6. It gives a very excellent history of the pleasant w...Arthur Morris [n/a] [n/a]Blackwood's Edinburgh MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945I am in the middle of a splendid and much-talked- about book “Joan & Peter” by H.G. Wells, and in it I find a brief description of “Pounce” which was played in the b...Arthur Morris Herbert George WellsJoan and PeterPrint: Book
1900-1945In the evenings before patience time M. works while I read “Sketches from Boz” to her. Quite a Darby & Joan affair.Arthur Morris Charles DickensSketches by 'Boz'Print: Book
1900-1945'I wonder if by any chance you saw Hardy's poem in the last or the December "Harper's Magazine". It is a wonderful story of a master builder who built or greatly ad...William Henry Hudson Thomas Hardy'The Abbey Mason (Inventor of the "Perpendicular" ...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945M. is here deep in “Wuthering Heights”, with the ladies singing hard in the next room.Margery Morris Emily BrontëWuthering HeightsPrint: Book
1900-1945In the evenings before patience time M. works while I read “Sketches from Boz” to her. Quite a Darby & Joan affair.Margery Morris Charles DickensSketches by 'Boz'Print: Book
1900-1945'When I took up the "[English] Review" I couldn't help saying (with a sigh) "Yet another gorgeous laudition of Francis Thompson—and by Austin Harrison—too bad!" But...William Henry Hudson Austin HarrisonThe Poetry of Francis ThompsonPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Many thanks for your letter and book of verse. [...] I am delighted to possess your translations of modern Welsh verse, also the introduction and biographical note...William Henry Hudson H. Idris BellPoems from the Welsh: Translated into English Vers...Print: Book
1900-1945'Thank you for "Punch" and all the letters of the last few days [...]. I send you a copy of today's "Statesman" since you care to read my stuff. If when you come up...William Henry Hudson Thomas HardyA Changed Man, the Waiting Supper and Other Tales:...Print: Book
1900-1945'I read the "Observer" one [a review of "My Life in Sarawak"] on Saturday, and that I do like because it confirms my own opinion of the book. I daresay it was by Si...William Henry Hudson [n/a] [n/a]The ObserverPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I have just come from seeing Dr. Tom. More medicines! We had a very long talk and when we came out to the waiting room there was an old patient of his—Sister someb...Anon Anon Margaret BrookeMy Life in SarawakPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just come from seeing Dr. Tom. More medicines! We had a very long talk and when we came out to the waiting room there was an old patient of his—Sister someb...William Henry Hudson [n/a] [n/a]Blue Book [Parliamentary Papers]Print: Book
1900-1945'Here is the much talked of book [Morley Robert's "Time and Thomas Waring"]. It has been a pain for me to read it all through, though it didn't make me slop over an...William Henry Hudson Morley RobertsTime and Thomas Waring: A Study of a ManPrint: Book
1900-1945'To go back to your book ["Joseph Conrad: A Study"]; I know you thought highly of "Nostromo" but didn't know you placed it quite so far above the other books. The o...William Henry Hudson Richard CurleJoseph Conrad: A StudyPrint: Book


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