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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'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 Joseph ConradThe Secret AgentPrint: 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 Joseph ConradNostromoPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just finished that wonderful book—"The Way of All Flesh". It is a wonderful book.'William Henry Hudson Samuel ButlerThe Way of All FleshPrint: Book
1900-1945'Eleanor in great pain. Very brave but collapsed—throat ghastly. O Henry ... no good as a pick-me-up. Tried gramophone—better ... One feels so isolated all alone wi...Mary Franeis Butts O. Henry (pseud)[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Eleanor in great pain. Very brave but collapsed—throat ghastly. O Henry ... no good as a pick-me-up. Tried gramophone—better ... One feels so isolated all alone wi...Mary Franeis Butts Bertrand RussellProblems of PhilosophyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read Betrand Russell all morning, wrote, ate apples—applied more work NCCL [National Council for Civil Liberties]. 2 o'clock met John [Rodker]. Walked to Dorking. ...Mary Franeis Butts Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read Betrand Russell all morning, wrote, ate apples—applied more work NCCL [National Council for Civil Liberties]. 2 o'clock met John [Rodker]. Walked to Dorking. ...Mary Franeis Butts Bertrand RussellProblems of PhilosophyPrint: Book
1900-1945'At St. Servan I became extravagant and purchased myself a birthday present for 4 francs. Ruskin's 'Stones of Venice'. I had no prose reading with me, and one can hav...Thomas Edward Lawrence John RuskinThe Stones of VenicePrint: Book
1900-1945'Scroggs came back from Pontorson by train, but I rode, [bicycle] and thereby saved 3 francs 50 cent. Another 50 cent. and I will have paid for my Ruskins. I like his ...Thomas Edward Lawrence John RuskinThe Stones of VenicePrint: Book
1900-1945'Much T. E. Lawrence talk whom I knew slightly and always thought a bore and a bounder and a prig.... Storrs [Sir Ronald, an official in the British Foreign and Colon...Henry Channon Thomas Edward LawrenceThe Seven Pillars of WisdomPrint: Book
1900-1945'Next morning. My Ruskin is better than ever. I will have him bound in Oxford, or will bind him myself. It gives a most masterly exposition of the meaning and method ...Thomas Edward Lawrence John RuskinThe Stones of VenicePrint: Book
1900-1945'...and in the little bays I have damaged myself on rocks. I had been reading there on a cliff seat I constructed for about 5 hours on Sunday afternoon, when I woke u...Thomas Edward Lawrence [Anon] [Anon][unknown]Print: Book, 'books' 'with all my books in my hand'
1900-1945'To fill up this rather mixed letter I will give you a sketch of one of my days here. I wake at 7. and get up at 7.30. At eight I take "petit dejuner", and after insp...Thomas Edward Lawrence [Anon] [Anon][unknown]Unknown
1900-1945'"The day was fair and sunny, sea and sky "Drank its inspiring radiance, and the wind "Swept strongly from the shore, blackening the waves." I went to my seat on the c...Thomas Edward Lawrence [Anon] [Anon][unknown]Unknown
1900-1945'While walking about there before continuing my reading I fell into a little lake, between two rocks, and I wet all my legs. It was "A still salt pool, locked in wi...Thomas Edward Lawrence [Anon] [Anon][unknown]Unknown
1900-1945'Tell Arnie [brother] that at Kidwelly I stayed at the Pelican Hotel, where the prices charged me were only 2/3 of those given in the C.T.C. handbook'.Thomas Edward Lawrence [n/a] [n/a]The Cyclists' Touring Club GazettePrint: Serial / periodical, Handbook/Gazette
1900-1945'(By the way Yniol's castle is founded on Caerphilly which Tennyson visited). (See "Geraint and Enid")'Thomas Edward Lawrence Alfred, Lord Tennyson'Geraint and Enid'Unknown
1900-1945'I rode to Montbard...and thence here, which is a tiny village about 15 miles from Vezelay "the grandest Norman church in Europe" (or outside it I presume) the guide-...Thomas Edward Lawrence [Anon] [Anon][guide book]Print: Book
1900-1945'Will you if you write to Carcassonne tell me what is happening in Turkey: the rubbish here that they call newspapers say one day that movements are taking place amon...Thomas Edward Lawrence [n/a] [n/a]newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'To my joy there was a book-case in the room and soon I was engrossed in a book which I later found was Ian Hay's "The First Hundred Thousand" a fictionalised account...Hymie Fagan Ian HayThe First Hundred ThousandPrint: Book


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