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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1850-1899	'Bennett selected the things that interested him - notably novelists such as Henry James, Thomas Hardy, and his friend George Paston. It was through a review of a book by...	Arnold Bennett	H G Wells	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I've read a book of H. G. Wells, he's good, I saw that film about "Things to Come", it's good, never read about science, they do some silly things, they're always talkin...		H G Wells	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I am forming my opinions mainly from what I read in books on economies, politics, history, etc. I read the daily papers, but I do not take a lot of notice of what I read...		H G Wells	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Reading H.V. Morton, "I James Blunt". I read it in half an hour. It is propaganda but first-class propaganda and interesting and very readable and horribly convincing. I...		H V Morton	I James Blunt	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'24th October 1928. Late to work. Hurried letter from mother asking me to obtain for her 10 copies of ?la Vie Litt?raire? (Cours Moyen). The publishers are Alcyde P...	Gerald Moore	H. Barbusse	La Clart	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Wm brought me Bernard Palissy, but it so happened I had not a moment of time for reading except one day, when I got very interested in four or 5 chapters, & then the boo...	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	H. Morley	Palissy the Potter	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[I read] 'Oh, anything political - I'm mad about politics -you know, India today and all that sort of thing and all those red books that aren't allowed, I get all those.....		H. Rathbone	What Next in Germany	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Country and Town [by] H. Smith'; [Text] 'Horrid, in country shades to dwell!/ One positively might as well/ be buried...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	H. Smith	Country and Town	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'It was an exhilarating coincidence that my re-reading of H.T.'s "As It Was" should follow just after I had made my diary entry on the "spiritual" type of women suggested...	William Soutar	H. Thomas	As It Was	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The best account I have read of America, as it now is, I have found in a book written by H. Tudor, Esq. (a townsman of my own whom I knew very well in his early life, so...	Barbara Hofland	H. Tudor	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'There is any amount of masterly pages. I have not read all of them as you may imagine. [...] Yes the "virtue" of the book is great.' Interspersed and following are sev...	Joseph Conrad	H. (Herbert) G. (George) Wells	Mankind in the Making	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include remarks by H. A. L. Fisher beginning: 'Men wiser and more learned than I have discerned in history...	Edward Morgan Forster	H. A. L. Fisher	A History of Europe	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at School House, L. P. : 13.9.35 Francis E. Pollard in the Chair. 1. Minutes of last read and approved. 2. Account of the Excu...	Francis E. Pollard	H. A. L. Fisher	History of Europe	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A Meeting held at Whinfell 21/1/29 Alfred Rawlings in the chair 1. Minutes of last time read and approved [...] 4. The Subject ...	H. B. Lawson	H. B. Lawson	[An account of Plato's life and work]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved [...] [Min] 4 The Sub...	H. B. Lawson	H. B. Lawson	[Humour]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Walked Clausin with Herr Byng. Read "A Midsummer Day's Dream". Wire from Mrs Henderson.'	Verena Vera Pennefather	H. B. Marriott Watson	A Midsummer Day's Dream	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Tues. Parcel from Pemb. ... Read The Ashes of Vengeance by Sommerville.'	William Thomas	H. B. Somerville	Ashes of Vengeance: A Romance of Old France	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book for 1927 include Oscar Browning's reflections, quoted in H. E. Wortham's biography of him, on the potential of th...	Edward Morgan Forster	H. E. Wortham	Oscar Browning	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 2 March 1842: 'Since writing to you yesterday, my beloved friend, I have read in H. F. C[horley]'s "Music and Manners" the...	Mary Russell Mitford	H. F. Chorley	Music and Manners	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The sculptress Kathleen Bruce, widow of the Arctic explorer Captain Scott ... became positively scornful when she read [H. G.] Wells's "God the Invisible King" in 1917 ....	Kathleen Bruce	H. G. Wells	God the Invisible King	Print: Book

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