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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
 
1850-1899'The annotations in Wilde's copy of J.E.T. Rodgers's edition of [Aristotle's] "Ethics", which is inscribed "Oscar Wilde, Magdalen College, October 1877", illustrate his p...Oscar Wilde Aristotle EthicsPrint: 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 Arnold Bennett Print: Book
1850-1899Lane's reader was John Buchan, who read 'A Man from the North' and liked it, although he said it would not be popular.John Buchan Arnold BennettThe Man from the NorthManuscript: Sheet, proofs
1900-1945. . . [George] Sturt, Bennett's supposedly 'aesthetic' critic, was not particularly admiring of 'Anna'[of the Five Towns]; he writes complaining that Bennett makes 'an in...George Sturt Arnold BennettAnna of the Five TownsPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ...Helen Crawfurd Arnold Bennett Print: Unknown
1900-1945'And Bennett had now become a man of influence, largely through his "New Age" pieces. These articles, which he had begun in 1908, were widely read and admired . . . Ford...Ford Madox Ford Arnold BennettNew AgePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945"He would read acts of 'The Honeymoon' aloud to the two women, conscious that he did not read well, but considering it as a good test, to see if his lines could withstand...Arnold Bennett Arnold BennettThe HoneymoonManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'The play was finished after a long summer of hard work on 24 August: they sat in an arbour to read it with an audience of Marguerite Sheldon and Knoblock's agent Miss Ka...Arnold Bennett Arnold BennettMilestonesManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I have received some copies of "The Roll Call". They are odious in a very high degree. I do not complain of the quality of the paper, but I object to there being two h...Arnold Bennett Arnold BennettThe Roll CallPrint: Book
1900-1945'Bonar Law told him that "his sister had been a very great admirer", but that since this book she had "done with" him.'Miss Law Arnold BennettPretty Lady, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'...an article of his in the Daily News on 21 November, blaming Liberal leadership, produced from Asquith himself "a polite letter of self - justification"'. Herbert Asquith Arnold Bennettarticle in the 'Daily News'Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Bennett, Galsworthy, Edith Wharton and Willa Cather'.Herbert Ernest Bates Arnold Bennett[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'While she was on board the yacht in August, the proofs of "Riceyman Steps" arrived; She read them tucked up under rugs in the deck house on a "wild grey day", and they m...Pauline Smith Arnold BennettRiceyman StepsPrint: Book, proofs
1900-1945 'Riceyman Steps' had brought him new prestige; it was read by lords and barbers, and Conrad was reported to say that it showed 'Bennett victorious'.Joseph Conrad Arnold BennettRiceyman StepsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Beaverbrook vetted all the politics, finding only two or three small slips in the entire novel, which is a tribute to his briefing and to Bennett's attention.'Lord Beaverbrook Arnold BennettLord RaingoPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just read in The Bookman your preface to the American edition of ?An Old Wives? Tale.' J.B. Pinker Arnold Bennettpreface to The Old Wives' TalePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I have this day despatched to you in two book packets, a copy of "The Regent". You may take it positively from me that this book is all right. I have read nearly all o...Arnold Bennett Arnold BennettRegent, TheManuscript: manuscript of new novel (typescript?)
1900-1945'I have received your fourth and last article for Austin Harrison, and I have read it with a great deal of enjoyment.' J.B. Pinker Arnold BennettArtist and the Public, TheUnknown
1900-1945'By the way, My Journal is now in its eighteenth volume, and almost the whole of it is yet in manuscript. Whenever I look at it it seems to me to be rather interesting, ...Arnold Bennett Arnold BennettJournalManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'It ["The Price of Love"] and ?Sinister Street? were, he told me, the only works of fiction he [Henry James] had read since the War broke out.' Henry James Arnold BennettPrice of Love, ThePrint: Book


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