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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Books read from Feby 16th/18

King Richard II    Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream    do.
Henry the Eighth    do.
As You Lik...		Edward Henry Jones Albert DelpitOdette's MarriagePrint: Book
1900-1945'I am very busy with small things ? but am hoping to keep more to my books in future. I am making a really exhaustive study of France ? something fundamental I mean. ...Winifred Agnes Moore Albert GuerardFrench Civilisation; Foundations to end of Middle ...Print: Book
1900-1945‘A French poet (there are as many in France as this side), Albert Satteau, who always added to his name the dignity “des Gens de Lettres", used to receive me kindly at “L...Edmund Blunden Albert SatteauunknownPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence tempered by experience. Of course he continued to read...George Gissing Albert Henry BuckTreatise on Hygiene and Public Health Print: Book
1800-1849'Mr Rocca's "Memoirs sur la guerre Des Francois en Espagne" [sic] is just out. I have only read a very few pages but they give me a great desire to read more, particularl...Anne Romilly Albert Jean Michel de RoccaMémoires sur la guerre des Français en EspagnePrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr Rocca's "Memoirs sur la guerre Des Francois en Espagne" [sic] is just out. I have only read a very few pages but they give me a great desire to read more, particularl...Sophie Romilly Albert Jean Michel de RoccaMémoires sur la guerre des Français en EspagnePrint: Book
1800-1849'Since I wrote the first two pages of this letter I have read Eugene and Guilliaume, and quite agree with you. Pray correct Sir James Mackintosh's opinion [about "Waverle...Anne Romilly Albert Jean Michel de RoccaMémoires Sur La Guerre Des Français En EspagnePrint: Book
1800-1849'If you want light easy Italian reading, get Giraud's Commedie - They are excessively amusing - Some are farcical & some are grave, but all full of action, & with a great...Sarah Harriet Burney Alberto NotaCommediePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide...Thomas Babington Macaulay Albius TibullusunknownPrint: Book
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 Albius Tibullus[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Finished Weber's Indian Literature'.George Eliot [pseud] Albrecht WeberHistory of Indian Literature, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron...Chester Armstrong Aldous HuxleyBrave New WorldPrint: Book
1900-1945[Lehmann and her first husband, Leslie Runcimann] 'were great readers, particularly of modern novelists such as Huxley, Lawrence and Gerhardie.'Rosamond Lehmann Aldous Huxley Print: Book
1900-1945[Lehmann and her first husband, Leslie Runcimann] 'were great readers, particularly of modern novelists such as Huxley, Lawrence and Gerhardie.'Leslie Runcimann Aldous Huxley Print: Book
1900-1945'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him with important models. Huxley, Wells and Aldington (...Lawrence Durrell Aldous Huxley[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Ends and Means contains much that is good and new. Also his essays are quite attractive, his novels are utter tripe.'Aldous HuxleyEnds and MeansPrint: Book
1900-1945'I like his Brave New World but I do not think any of his other books are much good, in fact they bore me profoundly.'Aldous HuxleyBrave new worldPrint: Book
1900-1945'A master's debate at school set me thinking, and I decided for myself as far as I could at that age. At 16 I joined the Under Thirty movement where I heard a debate on P...Aldous HuxleyEncyclopaedia of pacifismPrint: Book
1900-1945'Today I bought and read Aldous Huxley's essay Vulgarity in Literature. It's a surprisingly powerful thing, one of those treats in reading, of which our modern authors ne...Walter D'Arcy Cresswell Aldous HuxleyVulgarity in LiteraturePrint: Pamphlet
1900-1945Sunday 25 July 1926: 'Mrs Hardy said to me, do you know Aldous Huxley? [...] They had been reading his book, which she thought "very clever". But Hardy could not remember...Thomas and Florence HardyAldous HuxleyTwo or Three GracesPrint: Book


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