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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
 
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Molly MacCarthy, 20 June 1921: 'I am reading the Bride of Lammermoor -- by that great man Scott: and Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence, lured on by t...Virginia Woolf D. H. LawrenceWomen in LovePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 20 April 1931: 'I'm reading Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, for the first time'. ...Virginia Woolf D. H. LawrenceSons and LoversPrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 20 April 1931: 'Arrived [at La Rochelle] at 7.30 -- so quick one drives: I forgot our 2 punctures. One at Thouart [Thouars]; kept us, as the man did not mend it wh...Virginia Woolf D. H. LawrenceSons and LoversPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 28 May 1931: 'Disappointed, reading lightly through, by The man who died, D.H.L.'s last. Reading Sons and Lovers first, then the last I seem to span the measure ...Virginia Woolf D. H. LawrenceThe Man Who DiedPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 2 October 1932: 'I am [...] reading DHL. with the usual sense of frustration. Not that he & I have too much in common -- the same pressure to be ourselves: so that...Virginia Woolf D. H. LawrenceThe Letters of D. H. LawrencePrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 9 May 1935: 'Sitting in the sun outside the German Customs. A car with the swastika on the back window has just passed into Germany. L[eonard]. is in the customs...Virginia Woolf D. H. LawrenceAaron's RodPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Edward Joseph Dent, 6 March 1915: 'I have not read Platen yet [...] German's a labour. I liked Holderlin's Hyperion -- I wish someone would translate ...Edward Morgan Forster D. H. LawrenceThe White PeacockPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Wilson Plant, 14 February 1917: 'Like you I am a great admirer of D. H. Lawrence [...] The Rainbow I picked up in a book shop during the brief period ...Edward Morgan Forster D. H. LawrenceThe RainbowPrint: Book
1900-1945'By the way! 'Jimmy & the Desperate Woman' is fucking good! 'After he had given his lecture (it was on Men in Books and Men in Life: naturally men in books came first)......Philip Larkin D. H. LawrenceJimmy and The Desperate Woman, in The Woman Who Ro...Print: Book
1900-1945'As Lawrence (+ sign of cross - not christian cross - no devil down in Hell: [Christian cross] (!!)) said 'The reason the English Middle Classes chew every mouthful 30 ti...Philip Larkin D. H. LawrenceunknownPrint: Unknown
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding D.A. SmithO the Brave MusicPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding D.E. StevensonListening ValleyPrint: Book
1900-1945'He read "The Lost Girl" at the end of November just when he was himself most deeply engaged in trivia, and immediately recognizes it as "the work of a genius", Lawrence ...Arnold Bennett D.H. LawrenceLost Girl, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'D. H. Lawrence . . . reviewed the novel [The World of William Clissold by Wells] in the "Calendar" of October 1926, in a piece which Bennett says shows his "childish and...Arnold Bennett D.H. Lawrence[review of H.G. Wells's "The World of William Clis...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'He returned to London to . . . Lawrence's "Virgin and the Gipsy", which he admired even more [than "Cakes and Ale"].'Arnold Bennett D.H. LawrenceVirgin and the Gipsy, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just read the latter. ["The Lost Girl".] It is very remarkable indeed, and would be great if it had a real theme and some construction. This man is a genius, and ...Arnold Bennett D.H. LawrenceLost Girl, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'When, years later, I first read "Lady Chatterley's Lover", I did not feel that I was being liberated into a new frankness of manhood: I felt that I was returning to baby...Norman Nicholson D.H. LawrenceLady Chatterley's LoverPrint: Book
1900-1945The Lawrence is magnificent. Pity he is falling more & more into the trick of repeating a word or a phrase. It irritates the reader & enfeebles the sturff. Also the co...Arnold Bennett D.H. LawrenceTrees and Babies and Papas and MamasPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'At 7.15pm, I go to a new series of readings from famous authors on the English countryside - selections from Mary Webb, D.H. Lawrence and Adrian Bell. The commentary, is...prisoners of warD.H. Lawrence[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945 In the main, the reviews of I.P. [Imperial Palace] have been excellent. But it is curious that 2 out of 3 of Max’s papers were excessively rude about it, the third (Sun...Arnold Bennett D.H. LawrenceThe Virgin and the GypsyPrint: Book


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