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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
 
1850-1899'Why are we Dissenters?'Sarah Good Eustace Rogers ConderWhy are we Dissenters? Three LecturesPrint: Book
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 Eve CurieMadame CuriePrint: Book
1900-1945'[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t...Evelyn Everett-GreenThe Head of the HousePrint: Book
1900-1945'An author's name carries weight with me, but results are sometimes disappointing - e.g. I enjoyed Evelyn Waugh's "Decline and Fall", and so I bought "Vile Bodies" only ...Evelyn WaughDecline and FallPrint: Book
1900-1945'An author's name carries weight with me, but results are sometimes disappointing - e.g. I enjoyed Evelyn Waugh's "Decline and Fall", and so I bought "Vile Bodies" only ...Evelyn WaughVile BodiesPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind; the day, yesterday to be exact, being so triumphant...Virginia Woolf Ex-Detective Sergeant B. LeesonLost London. The Memoirs of an East End DetectivePrint: Book
1900-1945[the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual development of the time, discovering such writers as B...Edwin Muir Ezra Poundarticle in The New AgePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-194510 December 1917: 'My afternoon was very nearly normal; to Mudies, tea in an A.B.C. reading a life of Gaudier Brzeska'.Virginia Woolf Ezra PoundGaudier-Brzeska. A MemoirPrint: Book
1900-1945'[At his parents' house] We saw photos of Ezra as a baby and his first poems in an Idaho paper and no end of things that wd make poor Ezra squirm'.Ford Madox Ford Ezra Pound[early poems]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Thank you very much for the books. Monahan I like. E[zra] P[ound] is certainly a poet but I am afraid I am too old and too wooden-headed to appreciate him as perhaps he ...Joseph Conrad Ezra PoundPavannes and DivisionsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just seen the Pound pamphlet though Farrar & Rinehart never took the trouble to send me a copy. I think it looks fine and is a tribute not only to Mr. Pound but...Ford Madox Ford Ezra PoundThe Cantos of Ezra Pound: Some TestimonialsPrint: Pamphlet
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 F AnsteyHumour and FantasyPrint: Book
1850-1899'As for Mona Maclean I am afraid I could not say more than that it is a cleverish very youthful book, the author of which if she comes to anything will probably much regr...Margaret Oliphant F Marion Crawford Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I read "Golden Horn" by F. Yeats Brown. He was a prisoner in Turkish hands for two-and-a-half years. As in all these prisoners biographies, they had much more latitude c...Thomas Kitching F Yeats BrownGolden HornPrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished reading "Bengal Lancer" by F. Yeats-Brown. A pleasant book - by a likeable fellow. It's a pity he merely whets our appetite for a feast of yoga - but cannot sat...William Soutar F Yeats-BrownBengal LancerPrint: Book
1850-1899?I have read your history; and when I say ?read? I mean that I have turned over the pages and read all such parts as were apparently on a level with my comprehension?I fo...Leslie Stephen F W MaitlandHistory of English LawPrint: Book
1800-1849'Lovely lines - but I knew them before ... the two last, two years ago in ... Schneidemn's Greek fragments - a book Frank Lushington had and which I ever since intended t...Alfred Tennyson F W SchneidewinDelectus Presis Graeconim elegiacae, iambinis, mel...Print: Book
1900-1945'Having finished Morris I am reading a silly book of Anstey's "The Talking Horse" before settling down to Macaulay. I never heard you speak of Anstey, but you should re...Clive Staples Lewis F. AnsteyThe Talking Horse and Other TalesPrint: Book
1800-1849The Rev. P. Elmsley to John Murray (1815), regarding the Quarterly Review: 'I think you have not been very brilliant of late. I must say there is as great a difference...Rev. P. Elmsley F. Cohen[?review of] Paradise of CoquettesPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849The Rev. P. Elmsley to John Murray (1815), regarding the Quarterly Review: 'I think you have not been very brilliant of late. I must say there is as great a difference...Rev. P. Elmsley F. Cohen[?review of] Brand's Popular Antiquities Print: Serial / periodical


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