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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‘On return to England [from Jena], by the way, I renewed my acquaintance with R.B. [Robert Browning]. The last line of Mr Sludge the Medium—“yet there is something in...Charles Hamilton Sorley Robert BrowningMr Sludge, "the Medium"Print: Book
1900-1945'I am reading 'Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour'. Rather good.'Arnold Bennett R.S. SurteesMr Sponge's Sporting TourPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tuesday 6th July. ?Mr Waddington of Wyck? ? (May Sinclair). Back to the office today and find that young Reid has done pretty well. Kept my work fairly up-to-date. ...Gerald Moore May SinclairMr Waddington of WyckPrint: Book
1900-1945'As for Mother I'm as usual lost in amazement at the amount she gets through without turning a hair. The "Cat and the Fiddle book" I thought a masterpiece — she wou...Gertrude Bell May Sinclair [pseud. Mary Amelia St. Clair]Mr Waddington of WyckPrint: 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'Thoroughgood’s notice of Wells’s book was deplorable. ['Mr Blettsworthy on Rampole Island']. For one thing the book is magnificently written. To me it is the best nov...Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsMr. Blettsworthy on Rampole IslandPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sunday 17th. Am pretty sure I will get back to the Battalion soon. Went to St. Pol, had lunch, bought some books. Stopped a staff car, and got back to Aubigny for tea. S...Robert Lindsay Mackay Edward Verrall LucasMr. InglesidePrint: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet
1900-1945Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 15 April 1911: 'I congratulate you ever so gladly on Mr. Perrin -- I think the book represents a very marked advance upon its predecessors [....Henry James Hugh WalpoleMr. Perrin and Mr. TraillPrint: Book
1900-1945Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd., 20.XII.33.
E. Dorothy Brain in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved

[...]

7....		Dorothy Brain Hugh WalpoleMr. Perrin and Mr. TraillPrint: Book
1850-1899'I went to one of my clubs to have some tea, and look - but with little hope - for a novel really attractive to me after having finished "Mrs Arthur", and then - a happy ...A.W. Kinglake Margaret OliphantMrs ArthurPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Gwen Raverat, 11 March 1925: 'I don't think you would believe how it moves me that you and Jacques should have been reading Mrs Dalloway, and likin...Gwen Raverat Virginia WoolfMrs DallowayPrint: Unknown, In proof copy
1900-1945'Last night I went to bed very early and read Mrs Dalloway. It was a very curious sensation: I thought you were in the room - But there was only Pippin, trying to burrow...Vita Sackville-West Virginia WoolfMrs DallowayPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been horribly remiss in writing to thank you for "Mrs Dalloway", but as I didn't want to write you the 'How-charming-of-you-to-send-me-your-book-I-am-looking-forw...Vita Sackville-West Virginia WoolfMrs DallowayPrint: Book
1800-1849'Dr Ferris, since I have been here, has lent me [...] at the same time Mrs Galando's "Letters", a foolish slander, as it seems, against Mrs Siddons'William Windham Catherine GalindoMrs Galadano's letter to Mrs SiddonsPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to her former teacher, Margaret Wooler, 28 August 1848:

'Do you remember once speaking with approbation of a book called "Mrs Leicester's Sc...		Margaret Wooler Charles Lamb and Mary LambMrs Leicester's SchoolPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Mary LambMrs Leicester's School: or, the history of several...Print: Book
1900-1945'10 a.m. Service. Read Mrs Murphy & also a Rolling Stone by BM Croker. Walked a little. All's well.'William Thomas Barry PainMrs MurphyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read Mrs Murphy by Frank Richardson
Read Ship's Coy by WW Jacobs.'		William Thomas Barry PainMrs MurphyPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding Louis BromfieldMrs ParkinsonPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House
3/12/29
T. C. Elliott in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approved
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5. The subject of the...		Mrs C. Elliott unknown unknownMrs S, the Morton GhostUnknown


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