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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Rudie inspired in all his children a love of literature, reading aloud to them from his own favourites, the great Victorians, particularly Dickens, and helping them to c...Rosamond Lehmann [adult novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'Steeped in the fiction of the last century ("I was singularly ill read in fiction published in the twentieth century", she admitted. "I thought of nineteenth century lit...Rosamond Lehmann [nineteenth century fiction by women]Print: Book
1850-1899'And so she plunged into early Spanish literature and history, working at it in the Bodeleian with the fervour that comes from knowing that your subject is your very ...Mary Augusta Ward [Spanish poems and chronicles]Print: Book
1900-1945'By the way the reviews of "Leonora" in Athenaeum, Sketch, & T.P.?s Weekly have much pleased me. The swine on the Chronicle hadn?t read the book, & refrained from saying...Arnold Bennett [reviews]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'And another early serial of mine, which he [Tillotson] bought, is just beginning in La Sera, of Milan. I had the advertisement today.' Arnold Bennett  Print: Advertisement
1900-1945'I notice that Chatto is leaving "Hugo" out of his advertising list. . . . He has a permanent advertisement in today?s Tribune.' Arnold Bennett  Print: Advertisement, Book
1900-1945'It ["Hugo"] was also left out of his [Andrew Chatto's] advt in the Times on Friday. Perhaps you can ascertain the reason.' Arnold Bennett  Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
1900-1945'I have read through the 12 lessons of the Literary Correspondence College, & made a few corrections & suggestions, & I return them by parcel post. They are devilish goo...Arnold Bennett  Print: Unknown
1900-1945'He [Waugh] told me he expected the book to keep on selling. You might give him to understand that the eyes of Europe are upon him at this crisis, and point out to him th...Arnold Bennett  Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'And so she plunged into early Spanish literature and history, working at it in the Bodeleian with the fervour that comes from knowing that your subject is your very ...Mary Augusta Ward [Latin and German writings about early Spanish lit...Print: Book
1900-1945 'I return the draft contract. It seems to me that the alteration in clause 3 practically abolishes the stock rights, and I should like you to consider this further. A...Arnold Bennett legal contractPrint: draft legal contract
1900-1945 The contract is not entirely in my favour, and neither you nor any other experienced manager would be so foolish as to sign a contract entirely in favour of the other...Arnold Bennett legal contractPrint: draft legal contract
1850-1899'[from a letter from Mary Arnold, later Ward, to her mother] I have indeed seen the paragraphs about Papa. The L's showed them me on Saturday. You can imagine the exc...Mary Augusta Ward [newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'On Saturday I saw for the first time an advertisement of this book, [Lilian] which I suppose has been out for quite a month.' Arnold Bennett  Print: Advertisement
1850-1899'In the evening we went to Spargnapini's, and had some chocolate and read the papers. G. finished reading allowed (sic) the Merchant of Venice, and I the first vol. of Wi...George Eliot and G.H. Lewes newspapersPrint: NewspaperManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899Henry James, in 28 January 1894 letter to John Hay, explains how he learned of the manner of the death of Constance Fenimore Woolson in Venice: " ... coming in -- from Co...Henry James cutting from Venetian newspaperPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899Henry James to Henry James Sr., from Paris, 20 December 1875: "I find the political situation here very interesting and devour the newspapers."Henry James newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899Henry James to Henry James Sr., from Paris, 20 December 1875: "I see both the Debats and the Temps every day ..."Henry James DebatsPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899Henry James to Henry James Sr., from Paris, 20 December 1875: "I see both the Debats and the Temps every day ..."Henry James TempsPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899Henry James to Alice James, 2 March 1877: "It is very late at night and I am in the delightful great drawingroom of the Athenaeum Club where I have been reading all the m...Henry James magazinesPrint: Serial / periodical


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