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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
 
1900-1945Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue 4th September 1943 F. E. Pollard in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.
[...]
Edith B. Smith Dorothy L. SayersThe Unsolved Puzzle of the Man with No FacePrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 25 September 1928: 'It began to rain [...] yesterday afternoon [...] Quentin [Bell, nephew] came and painted the gramophone and after ...Leonard Woolf Dorothy OsborneThe Letters of Dorothy Osborne to William TemplePrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'I am at present reading a book which you would enjoy, "The letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple.... They lived in Cromwell's time, and the letters are ...Clive Staples Lewis Dorothy OsborneLetters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William TemplePrint: Book
1900-1945'I read "Hangman's Holiday" with great enjoyment.'Hilary Spalding Dorothy SayersHangman's HolidayPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read "Strong Poison" all day and enjoyed it thoroughly.'Hilary Spalding Dorothy SayersStrong PoisonPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read "Nine Tailors" all pm although I'd promised myself I'd work at night. But it was a lovely evening and I lay in a secluded corner of the garden on my rug and alth...Hilary Spalding Dorothy SayersNine Tailors, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'"Nine Tailors" all evening.'Hilary Spalding Dorothy SayersNine Tailors, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'F 25 C is holding a slim book (looks new), approximate size 81/2" x 51/2", yellow jacket cover, title "Man Born to be King" by Dorothy Sayers. She does not open the book...Dorothy SayersMan born to be kingPrint: Book
1900-1945'My first real understanding of the "terrific sensation" came from an article published in the "Sunday Chronicle" on March 12th by the American columnist, Dorothy Thompso...Vera Brittain Dorothy Thompson[article in the "Sunday Chronicle"]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Dear Lady London,the Lawrence letters & Hogarth Living Poets have arrived......I am not half-way thro' it yet, as it takes turn with Shakespeare and Gibbon, & catching t...Walter D'Arcy Cresswell Dorothy WellesleyHogarth Living PoetsPrint: Book
1900-1945' "A CALM IRRESISTIBLE WELL-BEING - ALMOST mystic in character, and yet doubtless connected with physical conditions" writes Dorothy'.Katherine Mansfield Dorothy WordsworthJournalPrint: Book
1850-1899'Ask [Mrs Davy] to let you see Miss Wordsworth's MS. account of the two poor Greens who were lost in the snow. Wordsworth said it was the most perfect [italics] English [...William Wordsworth Dorothy Wordsworth[MS narrative]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Dorothy L SayersThe Man Born to be KingPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read "Have His Carcase". Will be the last fiction I'll read at weekends till after exams, worse luck. Am beginning revision to-morrow.'Hilary Spalding Dorothy L SayersHave His CarcasePrint: 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 Dorothy L SayersUnpleasantness at the Bellona Club, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Have you read Dolly Richardson’s "Backwater"? If not, do. It is a book.'Arnold Bennett Dorothy M. RichardsonBackwaterPrint: Book
1900-1945In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September written: 'Reading this August: Souvenirs de Tocquev...Virginia Woolf Douglas AinslieAdventures Social and LiteraryPrint: Book
1900-1945'Now I have looked [at the verses] I have to thank you for the kind thought of sending me the little volume and for the pleasure it has given me.' Hence follow eight line...Joseph Conrad Douglas GoldringA Country Boy and Other PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Three weeks of sickness, sleepness nights, and dismal days: and the "light" reading that I have been devouring I find to weigh very heavy. Yet the "Three Mousquetaires" ...John Mitchel Douglas JerroldSt Giles and St JamesPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the evening played bagatelle & read portion of "A man made of money" one of Douglas Jerrold's stories that I think appeared originally in Punch'John Buckley Castieau Douglas JerroldA man made of moneyPrint: Book


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