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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'After Dennis Marsden won an exhibition to St Catherine's College, Cambridge his parents, solid Labour supporters, "found supreme happiness sitting on the Backs looking o...Frank Richards[school stories in the Magnet]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Hymie Fagan, an East End Jewish Communist, picked up public school ethics from the Gem, the Magnet and the stories of Talbot Baines Reed. He once declined to run in an a...Hymie Fagan Frank Richards[school stories in The Magnet]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Hymie Fagan, an East End Jewish Communist, picked up public school ethics from the Gem, the Magnet and the stories of Talbot Baines Reed. He once declined to run in an a...Hymie Fagan Frank Richards[school stories in The Gem]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945[Harry Burton recalled' "we wallowed in Eric and St Winifred's and other school stories, especially Talbot Baines Reed's"...[Burton] like other working class children pre...Harry Burton Frank Richards[School Stories in the Magnet and the Gem]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'he swapped and shared books, especially Billy Bunter stories. ("[Bunter's] roars and squeaks of anguish were constantly imitated then and for years after", says Sutton; ...Philip Larkin Frank Richards[Billy Bunter stories]Print: Book
1900-1945Tues. Sent letter to Findlay. Fine day. Nil by mail. Read 2535 Mayfair by Frank Richardson.'William Thomas Frank Richardson2535 MayfairPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c 26 December 1793: 'I take Milton to have introduced this kind of alcaics into the English language in his translation of Qu...Robert Southey Frank SayersOde to AuroraPrint: Book
1900-1945'The coast of Sumatra is very low — we could see it as a belt of trees on the water. Felt very slack before dinner and went to sleep. It got hot again. Read some of...Gertrude Bell Frank SwettenhamUnaddressed LettersPrint: Book
1900-1945 re: 'September' 'This work is admirably conceived and just about perfectly constructed . . . It is incomparably the best novel by an author under 40 that I have read...Arnold Bennett Frank SwinnertonSeptemberPrint: Book
1900-1945'I should have read S.& H. ["Shops and Houses"] earlier, despite J. & P. , but I couldn’t get the book off Marguerite. Conjugal unpleasantness became so acute on the poi...Arnold Bennett Frank SwinnertonShops and HousesPrint: Book
1900-1945'A slight work, but just about perfect. In fact I do not know how to find fault with it. ["Nocturne", 1917] . . . And I left off "Wuthering Heights" in order to read it...Arnold Bennett Frank SwinnertonNocturnePrint: Book
1900-1945'I should have read S.& H. [Shops and Houses] earlier, despite J. & P. , but I couldn’t get the book off Marguerite. Conjugal unpleasantness became so acute on the point...Arnold Bennett Frank SwinnertonShops and HousesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I should have read S.& H. [Shops and Houses] earlier, despite J. & P. , but I couldn’t get the book off Marguerite. Conjugal unpleasantness became so acute on the point...Arnold Bennett Frank SwinnertonOn the StaircasePrint: Book
1900-1945'I cannot understand the small sale of 'Felix' ['Young Felix'] in this bloody country.' Arnold Bennett Frank SwinnertonYoung FelixPrint: Book
1900-1945'Many thanks for your letter. The enclosure was most interesting. It reveals an original personality and to me attractive. It is at the same time a most flattering recogn...Joseph Conrad Frank Challice Constable(letter)Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'Meeting held at 7 Marlborough Avenue 22/10/45
Arnold G. Joselin in the chair

1. The minutes of the previous meeting were read & signed.

...		Dorothea Taylor Frank Kingdon WardModern ExplorationPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue: 18. 3. 40. Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
2. We began our meeting w...		Rosamund Wallis Frank R. BrowningSquirrel InnPrint: Book
1900-1945'Books specially studied during furlough. 1917–1918.

The World & the Gospel. J. H. Oldham. S.V.M.U.
The Valley of Decision. Burroughs. Longmans.
...		Albert Ruskin Cook Frank Theodore WoodsCreed of a ChurchmanPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'Midnight. Read the Italian translation by Guido Sorelli of the German Grillparzer ...'George Gordon Lord Byron Franz GrillparzerSapphoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Jeffrey has sent me a note requesting the Ops Majus by the middle of next month, and enclosing a draft of twenty guineas for the article on Richter. You may conceive wh...Thomas Carlyle Franz HornUnknownPrint: Book


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