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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
 
1850-1899George Gissing, diary entry for 9 December 1894: 'Gloomy day. Read "Esther Waters". Some pathos and power in latter part, but miserable writing.'George Gissing George MooreEsther WatersPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Yeats forbade his sisters to read George Moore's "A Mummer's Wife": a proscription which led Susan Mitchell, who lived with the family, to "gulp ... guilty pages of it" ...Susan Mitchell George MooreA Mummer's WifePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'he claimed that he had not thought of using them [the Potteries] as fiction until he read another man's work of fiction, George Moore's A Mummer's wife [title in italics...Arnold Bennett George MooreA Mummer's WifePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'A Mummer's Wife [title in italics] had impressed him very much with its power and its Staffordshire setting.'Arnold Bennett George MooreA Mummer's WifePrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday 7th August ?The Untilled Field? ? (George Moore)'. Gerald Moore George MooreThe Untilled FieldPrint: Book
1850-1899 'My favourite masters & models: 1. Turgenev, a royal first (you must read 'On the Eve'?flawless I tell you. Bring back such books of mine as you have; I have others you...Arnold Bennett George MooreunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I couldn?t get her [?George Paston?] to give George Moore a good word. I have just been reading his first novel.' Arnold Bennett George MooreA Modern LoverPrint: Book
1850-1899'I reckon I can do something with Moore. . . I occupy the time of waiting in reading G.M. & making notes. The business has given me vague flitting shapes of ideas for ...Arnold Bennett George MooreunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'. . . and I wish to tell you that it was the first chapters of 'A Mummer’s Wife' which opened my eyes to the romantic nature of the district that I had blindly inhabited...Arnold Bennett George MooreA Mummer's WifePrint: Book
1900-1945'George Moore’s 'Avowals' is highly agreeable.'Arnold Bennett George MooreAvowalsPrint: 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 George MooreAvePrint: Book
1900-1945'Larkin later admitted that he spent most of his time straying from the path Bone [his tutor] intended him to follow. "I was on a great [George] Moore kick at that time",...Philip Larkin George Moore[unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945 '. . . There have been 2 supreme books since your regretted departure. G. Moore’s 'Avowals' and the letters of Chekhov . . .'Arnold Bennett George MooreAvowalsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Jean's friend lent her George Moore's "Heloise and Abelard" - "one of the loveliest; all that my Wyclif book should have been and was not," Winifred confessed, lamenting...Winifred Holtby George MooreHeloise and AbelardPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read "Esther Waters" which I though excellent — so direct and simple — and "La Seconde Vie de Michel Teissier" which interested me. Prosperous journey &mdash...Gertrude Bell George MooreEsther Waters: A NovelPrint: Book
1850-1899Among the writers who deserve attention the first is Rudyard Kipling (his last book ,”The Day’s Work”, a novel). J.M. Barrie—a Scotsman. His last book “Sentimental To...Joseph Conrad George MooreEvelyn InnesPrint: Book
1900-1945'George Moores Gospel according to George and Mary Hunter is a very tiresome book just like any rewritten Gospel and most "historical" novels.'Maurice Baring George MooreThe Brook KerithPrint: Book
1900-1945'God's in his heaven, all's right with the world, and I'm feeling quite Browningesque. I haven't got my movement orders yet, but I've been posted to the 10th Battn....Herbert Edward Read George MooreEsther WatersPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella and Henrietta Moulton-Barrett (sisters), 2 October 1846, on receiving her father and brother's responses to her marriage: 'The...Elizabeth Barrett Browning George Moulton-Barrettletter to Elizabeth Barrett BrowningManuscript: Letter
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1600-1699		'In George North's "Description of Swedland, Gotland, and Finland" (1561), on sig.G2r next to a textual discussion of the "Swecian Language" and a copy of "The Lordes Pr...Gabriel Harvey George NorthDescription of Swedland, Gotland, and FinlandPrint: Book


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