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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'In many respects and from an absolute point of judgement - the book ["An English Girl"] is simply magnificent.' Hence follows a page of almost unqualified praise.Joseph Conrad Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)An English GirlPrint: Book
1900-1945' I have just finished the book ["Mr. Apollo"] which reached me this morning [...].It comes off magnificently.' Hence follow 14 lines of almost unqualified praise. Joseph Conrad Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)Mr. ApolloPrint: BookManuscript: proofs
1900-1945'I was writing something so I refrained from looking at "The Good Soldier" (according to my time-honoured practice) till I got a few pages out of the way.' Hence follow...Joseph Conrad Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)The Good SoldierPrint: Book
1900-1945'If we had telephonic communication I would call you up and hear me thump my chest and cry mea culpa for not having written to him [Ford Madox Ford] about the [Henry] Jam...Joseph Conrad Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)Henry James:A Critical StudyPrint: Book
1850-1899'The writer [Ford Madox Ford] sat in the grandfather's chair,his back to the window, beside the fireplace, reading, his manuscript held up to the light: Conrad sat forwar...Ford Madox Ford Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) and Joseph ConradRomanceManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Henry James to Ford Madox Hueffer, 23 May 1900, thanking him for copy of his newly published volume of verse: 'I think your doubt about the verses misplaced and unjustifi...Henry James Ford Madox HuefferPoems for PicturesPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 31 January 1912: 'I have read The Bracknels, and wish to thank you for it [...] it does help one to distinguish between the superficial ...Edward Morgan Forster Forrest ReidThe BracknelsPrint: 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 Forrest ReidThe BracknelsPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 13 December 1912: 'I have read Following Darkness again, and am happier than I can tell you to be connected with it [as dedicatee]. Init...Edward Morgan Forster Forrest ReidFollowing DarknessPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 2 February 1913: 'I sent F[ollowing].D[arkness]. to a woman of another kind [i.e. than Alice Meynell, possibly reviewer of book in the T...anon Forrest ReidFollowing DarknessPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 5 October 1913: 'It's a good little sketch I think, and shows you can do a catastrophe if you choose. I never guessed he had murdered hi...E. M. Forster Forrest Reidunidentified 'sketch'Unknown
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 10 January 1919: 'Some of your stories I have read before, but I am enjoying and admiring them all. "Kenneth" made me laugh so nicely. T...Edward Morgan Forster Forrest Reid'Kenneth'Print: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 10 January 1919: 'Some of your stories I have read before, but I am enjoying and admiring them all. "Kenneth" made me laugh so nicely. T...Edward Morgan Forster Forrest Reid'The Trial of Witches'Print: Book
1850-1899'Fortune has written another book, the Equipage of the Devil, which is fully worse than words can describe.'Robert Louis Stevenson Fortune Hippolyte Auguste Castille (Boisgobey)L'Equipage du Diable (Equipage of the Devil)Print: Book
1900-1945'With my London-Matric knowledge of German I have struggled through the appreciation of you in 'Die Zeit.' Arnold Bennett Fr Graz in Die ZeitPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899
1900-1945		Some marginalia in pencil in French and English throughout. Bound together with Alexis Bertrand, 'La psychologie de l?effort: les doctrines contemporaines'Vernon Lee Fr?d?ric PaulhanLes ph?nom?nes affectifs et les lois de leur appar...Print: Book
1800-1849'About this time I read also the narratives of some eminent navigators and travellers; among the former were those of Cook, P?rouse and Bougainville; of the latter I chie...Thomas Carter Fran?ois Le Vaillant[narratives of travels]Print: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 16 June 1758:] 'Since I came home I have picked up [reading] at Mrs Gambieu's the Memoirs of Anne of Austria, in a vile and most...Elizabeth Carter Françoise Langlois de MottevilleMemoirs for the History of Anne of AustriaPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 21 July 1763:] 'I am curious to know whether you have at Spa (as at all places of that sort here) a circulating bookseller: if...Catherine Talbot Frances BrookeThe History of Lady Julia MandevillePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Lady Melbourne, 30 March 1814, on Frances Burney, The Wanderer (which contains episode recalling his ex-lover Lady Caroline Lamb's attempt to stab herself at a p...George Gordon Lord Byron Frances BurneyThe Wanderer, or Female DifficultiesUnknown


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