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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'. . . By the way your Westminster Gazette article was magnificent, & filled me with holy joy.'Arnold Bennett H. G. Wells'The Schoolmaster and the EmpirePrint: 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?
1850-1899'. . . have you got Roget?s Thesaurus of English words and phrases? It is the most wonderful machine for getting at words that you know but can?t think of at the moment...Arnold Bennett Dr Peter Mark RogetThesaurusPrint: Book
1900-1945'. . . he was reading Gaboriau's detective fiction enthusiastically at this time, and makes several polite acknowledgements to him in the text itself, as well as in his j...Arnold Bennett Gaboriau[detective fiction]Print: Book
1900-1945'. . . her short stories, 'The Little Karoo', all set in the South Africa of her childhood, were widely admired and are still remembered. Bennett must have felt a justif...Arnold Bennett Pauline SmithThe Little KarooPrint: Book
1900-1945'. . . his reading of that remarkable book, "When I was a Child, Recollections of an Old Potter"'.Arnold Bennett William ShawWhen I was a Child, Recollections of an Old PotterPrint: Book
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'. . . I do not at the moment see how I can be of advantage to a Schoolmaster's Year Book. I think fancy articles are a mistake in a Year Book. You want nothing but ser...Arnold Bennett The Literary Year BookPrint: Book
1850-1899'. . . I have just finished Guy de Maupassant?s Bel Ami. One of the most obviously truthful, British-matron-shocking, disgusting, attractive, overwhelmingly-powerful nov...Arnold Bennett Guy de MaupassantBel-AmiPrint: Book
1850-1899'. . . I learnt this from the brothers de Goncourt. I must get you to read their 'Renee Mauperin'. To study the principles of its construction is both 'entertaining & i...Arnold Bennett Edmund and Jules de GoncourtRenee MauperinPrint: Book
1900-1945'. . . Jules Claretie's "L'Histoire de la R?volution de 1870-1871." He says that he "looked at the pictures" in Claretie (though there is little doubt that he read it to...Arnold Bennett Jules ClaretieL'Histoire de la R?volution de 1870-1871Print: Book
1700-1799'. . . let me recommend to You, to borrow or get from the Circulating Library, "An Apology for the Life of Mr Colley Cibber"?This book has Chance thrown in my Way since I...Samuel Crisp Colley CibberApology for the Life of Mr Colley Cibber, ComedianPrint: Book
1700-1799'. . . Mrs Kynaston, good humouredly ,called out -"I'm sure, Ladies, I am very glad to see you so merry, - ah - one of you young ladies, - I don't say which, has given me...Victoria Kynaston Frances BurneyEvelinaPrint: Book
1900-1945'. . . now I see the announcement of your articles in the Tribune . . . 'Arnold Bennett H. G. Wells Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'. . . reading the reviews, not even the book, of Mrs Parnell's "Life of Parnell". There was a full-page review in "The Times" of 19 May, and on 21 May another long piec...Arnold Bennett Times Literary Supplement, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'. . . reading the reviews, not even the book, of Mrs Parnell's "Life of Parnell". There was a full-page review in "The Times" of 19 May, and on 21 May another long piec...Arnold Bennett Times, ThePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'. . . the cab driver reads a coloured comic paper . . .'[a cab driver] anon  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'. . . the Morning Post had yesterday this Paragraph?We hear Lieutenant Burney has succeeded to the command of Capt. Clerke?s ship.'Frances Burney  Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'. . . then Edith Sitwell appeared, her nose longer than an ant-eaters, and read some of her absurd stuff...'Edith Sitwell Edith SitwellpoemsUnknown
1700-1799'. . . this Creature, whose nick Name here is Mrs. MacDevil will not, it seems, be slighted with impunity, & she put that mortifying paragraph into the Morning Post about...Frances Burney Learned Lass, or the Poor Scholar's Garland! A Son...Print: Newspaper


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