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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'I'm reading an Oxford undergraduate ms novel, and his hero says "Do you know these lines from The Land, the finest poem, by far the finest of our living poets -" but for...Virginia Woolf unknown[ms novel]Manuscript: Codex
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
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 C.S. LewisScrewtape Letters, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I'm sorry I kept the MS so long.[...] However I've read it more than once; the difficulty was to say something useful.[...] I do not want to deface the pages tho' I have...Joseph Conrad Elizabeth Martindale Margaret HeverManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I'm still in hospital but I've made a very rapid cure (I was pretty bad when I came) and I hope they will let me go back to Basrah in a day or two. I've been quite extra...Gertrude Bell Gilbert Murray[English verse translations of Greek plays]Print: Book
1900-1945'I'm still in hospital but I've made a very rapid cure (I was pretty bad when I came) and I hope they will let me go back to Basrah in a day or two. I've been quite extra...Gertrude Bell unknown[unspecified novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'I'm sure you have read "A Lost Dominion" — what a remarkable book! Well compare the picture there given with the views of our untutored Arab shaikhs and tell me if...Gertrude Bell A. Carthill (= al-katil. pseud. C. Kennedy)The Lost DominionPrint: Book
1900-1945'I'm taking up nursing, and I thought I would get a good inside knowledge from a book of this kind. (Hospital Nurse: Swinburne)'Doreen SwinburneHospital NursePrint: Book
1900-1945'I'm very amused reading in the paper about the trains yesterday. (reads): "Many trains had to run in duplicate and triplicate to accomodate the crowds." After all they s... [n/a][Newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'I've been frightfully lazy today: it's been too hot to do anything. Pater was a gem: he brought my breakfast up about 9.30 and I didn't get up until eleven. I read...Dora Willatt Ian HayGetting TogetherPrint: Book
1900-1945'I've been frightfully lazy today: it's been too hot to do anything. Pater was a gem: he brought my breakfast up about 9.30 and I didn't get up until eleven. I read...Dora Willatt Edward Bulwer-LyttonThe Last Days of PompeiiPrint: Book
1900-1945'I've been reading about miners' food difficulties. Isn't it disgusting-we starve the men who do one of the most important jobs of the war-well it's more important than t... unknownreport on miners' conditionsPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I've been reading my general epistle of Jude in my old Bible'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible Print: Book
1850-1899'I've been reading Wilkie Collins: Fosco is very great, very great; I envy Fosco, I had rather been Fosco than R.L.S.'Robert Louis Stevenson Wilkie CollinsThe Woman in WhitePrint: Book
1900-1945'I've been walking on the marsh and found a swan sitting in a Saxon grave. This made me think of you. Then I came back and read about Leonardo - Kenneth Clark - good I ...Virginia Woolf Kenneth ClarkunknownUnknown
1900-1945'I've got too much to do (to read books). I read the newspapers mostly, morning and evening editions, and the midday, as I'm a racing man.' [n/a][Newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'I've had the "Fortnightly [Review]" sent to me. I've just finished your "Sainte Beuve". My dear fellow! It's an admirable analytical exposition of the man himself. I've ...Joseph Conrad Gérard Jean-AubrySainte Beuve (exact title unknown)Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I've had [underlined] one [end underlining] violent set-too with Douglas on the subject of Gertrude Stein. He said her work was "purest bosh" & thought it "a shame" that...Douglas Cole Getrude Stein[art criticism]Print: Book
1900-1945'I've just been reading Mrs Asquith's book and I confess it leaves me bewildered. Unless my judgement has gone entirely astray, it is completely détraqué. She records con...Gertrude Bell Margot AsquithAutobiographyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I've just finished reading "Liza of Lambeth" It is certainly worth reading--but whether it's worth talking about is another question. I at any rate have nothing to say e...Joseph Conrad W. Somerset MaughamLiza of LambethPrint: Book


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