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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'Read the new Army of Occupation Orders. We are to get 28/- per week bonus for staying on. Rather good work.'Leslie Semple unknown unknownArmy of Occupation OrdersPrint: Unknown
1900-1945 I venture to write a very few words about your book on me. It has given me great pleasure. . . . The book is incomparably better than Darton’s—at any rate than the fir...Arnold Bennett Frederick Joseph Harvey DartonArnold Bennett Print: Book
1900-1945 I venture to write a very few words about your book on me. It has given me great pleasure. . . . The book is incomparably better than Darton’s—at any rate than the fir...Arnold Bennett L.G. JohnsonArnold Bennett of the Five TownsPrint: Book
1900-1945'W.J. Brown was introduced to literature by "Robinson Crusoe", "She", "The Last of the Mohicans", and "Around the World in Eighty Days", and he never moved far beyond tha...William John Brown Jules VerneAround the World in Eighty DaysPrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you seen Robert Nicholls' poems? If you are a reader of "Tait's Magazine", you will see the review of them; that is a right manly and sterling volume of poetry, ful...Mary Howitt Robert NichollsArouse the SoulPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Wu notes marginalia of Dorothy Wordsworth in Wordsworth Library copy of William Withering, An Arrangement of British Plants according to the latest improvements of the Li...Dorothy Wordsworth William WitheringArrangement of British Plants according to the lat...Print: Book
1700-1799'He appears, from his early notes or memorandums in my possession, to have at various times attempted, or at least planned, a methodical course of study, according to com...Samuel Johnson HoraceArs PoeticaPrint: Book
1700-1799'Dr. Johnson and Mr. Wilkes talked of the contested passage in Horace's "Art of Poetry", "[italics] Difficile est proprie communia dicere.[end italics]' Mr. Wilkes accord...Samuel Johnson HoraceArs poeticaPrint: Book
1700-1799'Dr. Johnson and Mr. Wilkes talked of the contested passage in Horace's "Art of Poetry", "[italics] Difficile est proprie communia dicere.[end italics]' Mr. Wilkes accord...John Wilkes HoraceArs poeticaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Clive Bell's Art had been published in February 1914. It propounded the concept of "Significant form", but Virginia [Woolf], reading it in the midst of her [mental] il...Virginia Woolf Clive BellArtPrint: Book
1850-1899'I find here (of all places in the world) your Essays on Art, which I have read with signal interest.'Robert Louis Stevenson Philip Gilbert Hamerton Art Essays Print: Book
1700-1799'DILLY. "Mrs. Glasse's "Cookery", which is the best, was written by Dr. Hill. Half the trade know this.' JOHNSON. "Well, Sir. This shews how much better the subject of co...Mr Dilly Hannah GlassArt of Cookery Made Plain and Easy Print: Book
1700-1799'DILLY. "Mrs. Glasse's "Cookery", which is the best, was written by Dr. Hill. Half the trade know this.' JOHNSON. "Well, Sir. This shews how much better the subject of co...Samuel Johnson Hannah GlassArt of Cookery Made Plain and Easy 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 AristotleArt of PoetryPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Hurd's "Commentary on Horace's Art of Poetry"...'Thomas Green HoraceArt of Poetry, annotated by Richard Hurd,Print: Book
1800-1849'I have had within these few days a curious MS. sent to me by an English gentleman a Dr T. Brown who intreats me to take a hand in editing it and I think it would take re...James Hogg T. BrownArt of reading and conversing on the works of the ...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945 'I have been working with Shakespeare (a very good book) with an occasional dip into Aiken, and my B flats and Bs really do sound like them now, although I still get sti...Peter Pears ShakespeareArt of Singing, ThePrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1900-1945'I'm reading Quiller Couch's "Art of Writing", & am more & more convinced that he should be read by everyone compulsorily. He hits the nail on the head. Also "Screwtape...Hilary Spalding Arthur Quiller CouchArt of Writing, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Blackguardly letter in "Art Union", and interesting one in Rippingille's thing, to be answered; the last at great length.'John Ruskin [unknown]Art UnionPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'David Watson, M.A. of St. Andrews University, used to spend every spare moment of his day and whole Sundays on end with this writer [Ford] standing beside him at his p...Ford Madox Ford Madeleine de ScudéryArtamène ou le Grand Cyrus


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