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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'But nobody knew when they (the poems) were meant to come to an end; therefore the applause always came in the wrong place, either too soon or too late; either the poem c...Vita Sackville-West Edith Sitwell[poems]Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue: 2. VI. 31 Charles E. Stansfield in the chair 1. Minutes of last approved [...] 7. The subject of the Sitwells was introduced b...Alfred Rawlings Edith SitwellSleeping Beauty
1900-1945'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue: 2. VI. 31 Charles E. Stansfield in the chair 1. Minutes of last approved [...] 7. The subject of the Sitwells was introduced b...Celia Burrow Edith SitwellPerrine
1900-1945'The Financial Statement was read & approved'Howard R. Smith Edith Smith[financial statement of XII Book Club]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The treasurers report showing a balance in hand of 19/- was read'Edith Smith Edith Smith[treasurer's report of XII Book Club]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The financial statement was read showing a balance in hand of 11/ 3 1/2'Edith Smith Edith Smith[financial statement of XII Book Club]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945' ... when Arnold Bennett was reading Mrs [Edith] Wharton's "The House of Mirth" (1905), he concluded: "It can just be read. Probably a somewhat superior Mrs Humphry Ward...Arnold Bennett Edith WhartonThe House of MirthPrint: Book
1900-1945'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Bennett, Galsworthy, Edith Wharton and Willa Cather'.Herbert Ernest Bates Edith Wharton[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945[L.M. Montgomery] 'read a great deal; she mentions fifty different authors in her journal which covers the years 1910 to 1921. Titles range from Gibbon's "Decline and Fal...Lucy Maud Montgomery Edith Wharton Print: Book
1900-1945Henry James, in letter to Edith Wharton of 17 August 1902, writes to her of 'lately having read "The Valley of Decision", read it with such high appreciation and received...Henry James Edith WhartonThe Valley of DecisionPrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to Edith Wharton, 8 February 1905: '[...] your good letter has found me on the very point of writing to you [...] For I have read the February morsel of "The ...Henry James Edith WhartonThe House of Mirth (second instalment)Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Henry James to Edith Wharton, 8 November 1905, in praise of the conclusion to "The House of Mirth": 'Half an hour ago, or less, I laid down the November "Scribner" [...] ...Henry James Edith WhartonThe House of Mirth (final instalment)Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Henry James to Edith Wharton, 24 November 1907: 'I have read "The Fruit [of the Tree", in copy sent by Wharton][...] with acute appreciation -- the liveliest admiration a...Henry James Edith WhartonThe Fruit of the TreePrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to Edith Wharton, 4 December 1912, whilst suffering from shingles: 'Your beautiful Book ["The Reef: A Novel"] has been my portion these several days [...] it ...Henry James Edith WhartonThe Reef: A NovelPrint: Book
1900-1945'I'm reading "A Son at the Front" in book form. The wife reads serials in magazines which I don't.'Rudyard Kipling Edith WhartonA Son at the FrontPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 21 May 1934: 'I lit the fire and read Mrs Wharton; Memoirs and she knew Mrs Hunter [Ethel's sister], and probably you. Please tell me ...Virginia Woolf Edith WhartonA Backward GlancePrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912: 'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two that I have enjoyed lately. George Moore, Ave, Will...Edward Morgan Forster Edith WhartonEthan FromePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just read a very bad book by Edith Wharton & am cross with it for being bad because I thougt she never [underlined] was [end underlining].'Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen Edith Wharton[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'The first 60 pages [of "Summer"] might well have been written with one of those quill feathers one finds lying on a quiet field on a hot brooding summer day.' [Hence fol...Joseph Conrad Edith WhartonSummerPrint: Book
1900-1945'I haven't quite finished Mrs Wharton. It's very good and readable as she always is I think. It was a great solace to me on the way. Also I had a volume of poems by Ruper...Gertrude Bell Edith Wharton?The Custom of the CountryPrint: Book


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