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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'Meeting held at “Frensham”, Northcourt Avenue, 21st Feb ’45
    Howard R. Smith in the chair

1. The minutes of the last meeting w...		Alice Joselin James BridieMr Bolfry: a play in four scenesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Frensham”, Northcourt Avenue, 21st Feb ’45
    Howard R. Smith in the chair

1. The minutes of the last meeting w...		Muriel Stevens James BridieMr Bolfry: a play in four scenesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Frensham”, Northcourt Avenue, 21st Feb ’45
    Howard R. Smith in the chair

1. The minutes of the last meeting w...		Francis E. Pollard James BridieMr Bolfry: a play in four scenesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Frensham”, Northcourt Avenue, 21st Feb ’45
    Howard R. Smith in the chair

1. The minutes of the last meeting w...		Faith Miller James BridieMr Bolfry: a play in four scenesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been interrupted [in finishing a play] by getting back the m.s. of [underlined] Mr. Bosphorus [end underlining] which I have just gone through again, cutting it a...Ford Madox Ford Ford Madox FordMr Bosphorus and the MusesManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I like this book very much. ["Mr. Britling Sees It Through"] It is extremely original & sympathetic, & the scenes that ought to be the best are the best. In fact it is ...Arnold Bennett H.G. WellsMr Britling Sees It ThroughPrint: Book
1900-1945'Talked twenty minutes with two Egyptian officers who seemed a little out of the picture, and to bed, after fifty or sixty pages of "Mr Britling".'Ronald Storrs Herbert George WellsMr Britling sees it throughPrint: Book
1850-1899[Letter]

'I have got ''Mr Hogarth's Will'', and find it too dull, so we have only Hepworth Dixon's ''America'' and old Jesse's ''George III.'', which is comfor...		Emma Darwin Catherine Helen SpenceMr Hogarth's WillPrint: Book
1900-1945The Lawrence is magnificent. Pity he is falling more & more into the trick of repeating a word or a phrase. It irritates the reader & enfeebles the sturff. Also the co...Arnold Bennett Mr Joiner and the BiblePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Read "Mr Justice Raffles".'William Thomas Ernest William HornungMr Justice RafflesPrint: Book
1900-1945'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular novels, including such books as Treasure Island, Th...Daphne du Maurier Frederick MarryatMr Midshipman EasyPrint: Book
1900-1945'He [Joseph Conrad] would read to me for long periods and make birds and other things out of sheets of paper which he folded with great dexterity. [...] His choice of boo...Joseph Conrad Frederick MarryatMr Midshipman EasyPrint: Book
1900-1945I have now read 'Mr Moffat'. If the author is very young I regard it as a pretty sound book. Fundamentally true throughout, with a good plot well constructed and improvi...Arnold Bennett Chester Francis CobbMr MoffatPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935) include (from chapter 15 of Christopher Isherwood, Mr Norris Changes Trains): 'Remorse is not for the elde...Edward Morgan Forster Christopher IsherwoodMr Norris Changes TrainsPrint: Book
1900-1945'You shock me. Not by liking "The Way of all Flesh", but by liking "The Devil?s Garden" and "Fortitude" . . . . it is not excusable to lose your head about badness or ...Arnold Bennett Hugh WalpoleMr Perrin and Mr TraillPrint: Book
1900-1945'I started reading my inscribed copy [of "Mr Perrin and Mr Traill"] straight away. How well (and freshly) all this is done!' [Hence follow four more lines of appreciative...Joseph Conrad Hugh WalpoleMr Perrin and Mr Traill: A Tragi-Comedy.Print: Book
1900-1945'I congratulate you on ?Prohack?. It is brilliant and I have read it with intense admiration.' Algernon Methuen Marshall Arnold BennettMr ProhackPrint: Book
1900-1945'Friday 2nd July Teddie and I have managed to get up this morning. Here it is 10.30 and we have tidied up washed the supper dishes and I am waiting for breakfast read...Gerald Moore Arnold BennettMr ProhackPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday 5th July I finished ?Mr Prohack? last night. A fine book but I did not take to Mrs P. nor even to Mr Bennett?s views on the feminine. I do not quarrel with the...Gerald Moore Arnold BennettMr ProhackPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge William SteeleMr Recorder's Speech to the Lord ProtectorPrint: Book


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