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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'[Hugh] Walpole spent all Sunday afternoon at my house in reading Jacob Tonson?s "New Age" articles, which he had asked for. He said it would be ridiculous not to reissu...Hugh Walpole Arnold Bennett'New Age' articlesPrint: Serial / periodical
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 CallManuscript: proofs
1900-1945'I congratulate you on ?Prohack?. It is brilliant and I have read it with intense admiration.' Algernon Methuen Marshall Arnold BennettMr ProhackPrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 19 May 1912: 'A. Benett [sic] I've never to this day beheld -- and certain [italics]American[end italics] papers of his in "Harper", of an in...Henry James Arnold BennettarticlesPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Henry James to James B. Pinker, 6 January 1915: 'be thanked [...] for your conveyance to me of Arnold Bennett's healthy article (which I had seen and much relished, thoug...Henry James Arnold Bennettcritique of George Bernard Shaw, Common Sense abou...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'On the wall at the side of the chimney Dad put up the bookshelves which Dodie began to fill with secondhand penny books. Over the years we had Conrad and Wodehouse, Eric...family of Rose GambleArnold Bennett[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Friday 2nd July Teddie and I have managed to get up this morning. Here it is 10.30 and we have tidied up washed the supper dishes and I am waiting for breakfast read...Gerald Moore Arnold BennettMr ProhackPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday 5th July I finished ?Mr Prohack? last night. A fine book but I did not take to Mrs P. nor even to Mr Bennett?s views on the feminine. I do not quarrel with the...Gerald Moore Arnold BennettMr ProhackPrint: Book
1850-1899'My book reviews find considerable favour. The eclectic Chapman has much encouraged me by the statement that he reads no criticism which he likes better.'Frederic Chapman Arnold BennettreviewsPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'. . . I am charmed with a serial of mine now running with great ?clat & Reginald Cleaver?s illustrations, in a sheet entitled the "Golden Penny". To read the instalments...Arnold Bennett Arnold Bennett Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'. . . every evening after dinner he read "Whom God Hath Joined" . . . to Agnes and me. [Eleanor Green] I remember objecting to the daughter in the book, giving her fathe...Arnold Bennett Arnold BennettWhom God Hath JoinedManuscript: or published book?
1900-1945Virginia Woolf, on her honeymoon, to Lytton Strachey, 1 September 1912: 'You can't think with what a fury we fall on printed matter, so long denied us by our own wri...Leonard Woolf Arnold BennettAn Old Wives TalePrint: Book
1900-1945'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my father", he wrote later: "our house contained not onl...Sydney Larkin Arnold Bennett[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945Copious MS notes, including a chronology explaining the ages of the characters: "Samuel born 1833, 29 in 1862/ Constance born 1846, 16 in 1862/ Sophia born 1847, 15 in 18...George Otto Trevelyan Arnold BennettThe old wives' talePrint: Book
1900-1945MS notes including dates of reading, e.g.: "July 18 1916 Welcombe"; "March 29 1923 with Anna [i.e. Anna Philips, George Otto Trevelyan's sister-in-law]; "Read aloud to C ...George Otto Trevelyan Arnold BennettThese twainPrint: Book
1900-1945 Many thanks for the book on Methuselahs. ['Some Impressions of my Elders']Shame to say, I’ve only read myself in it yet! The one point on which I would seriously opp...Arnold Bennett Arnold BennettSome Impressions of my EldersPrint: Book
1900-1945'I finish "Accident" by Arnold Bennett, write up my diary, and so to bed.'Thomas Kitching Arnold BennettAccidentPrint: Book
1900-1945'From that far distant day [in 1903] when (you remember?) you sent me "Leonora" it's great fundamental quality of absolutely genuine expression has been with me an unshak...Joseph Conrad Arnold BennettLeonoraPrint: Book
1900-1945'F. E. Pollard read an article on Thos Hardy by Arnold Bennett S. A. Reynold [sic] spoke on Hardy's country with books & illustrations & R.H. Robson read from "Far from t...Francis Pollard Arnold Bennett[article on Hardy]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Your work on my novel ['Whom God Hath Joined'.] is now over, I am thankful to say, & so is mine too, nearly.... Had to read it aloud to the sex. So nice & cheerful to r...Arnold Bennett Arnold BennettWhom God Hath JoinedPrint: Book


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