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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'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 Harry Emerson FosdickManhood of the MasterPrint: 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 Harry Emerson FosdickMeaning of PrayerPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 11 January 1936: 'A very fine day [...] I read Borrow's Wild Wales, into which I can plunge head foremost [...] then [...] to tea with Nessa [sister] [...] Home, &...Virginia Woolf Harry J. GreenwallThe Strange Life of Willy ClarksonPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Harry S. KellerMysterious Mr I, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I did read most of Mr Philby's book in proof but I found it somehow difficult to get through — indeed I don't think I quite finished it. The style is so terribly a...Gertrude Bell Harry St. John PhilbyThe Heart of Arabia; a record of travel & explorat...Print: proofs
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Hartley ColeridgeThe Worthies of Yorkshire and LancashirePrint: Book
1800-1849‘Glad you’ve seen Winter’s Wreath.’Sarah Coleridge Hartley Coleridge[poems in The Winter's Wreath]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849‘I flatter myself the Volume [Hartley’s 1833 Poems] has sold tol lol. Dora [Wordsworth] finds great fault with its shape: a fault chargeable solely on my own bad taste ...Dora Wordsworth Hartley ColeridgePoems, Songs and SonnetsPrint: Book
1800-1849‘I dined yesterday at Rydal Mount ... Poor Mr. Wordsworth is all but blind. He bears his affliction with wonderful cheerfulness. I read to him my own Life of Roger Asch...Hartley Coleridge Hartley ColeridgeBiographia Borealis; or Lives of Distinguished Nor...Print: Book
1900-1945'As Conrad read for an hour or to before turning in, our one lamp, of the cheap paraffin variety, was hung on a nail close to his bunk, and was generally kept alight ...Joseph Conrad Hartley WithersWar and Lombard StreetPrint: Book
1900-1945'Even those who read widely about sex often learned very little. In the 1920s Jennie Lee won a psychology degree from the University of Edinburgh... She went beyond the s...Jennie Lee Havelock Ellis[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Houseservant Margaret Powell was unusually daring: she left Marie Stopes, along with the Kama Sutra and Havelock Ellis, on the bedside table for her husband. (Eventually...Margaret Powell Havelock Ellis[book on sex]Print: Book
1900-1945'An emancipated working woman like Elizabeth Ring was free to read the works of Freud, Havelock Ellis and Bertrand Russell in the late 1920s, but she was familiar with th...Elizabeth Ring Havelock Ellis Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		' ... [The Viscountess Rhondda] recounts the difficulty she had in acquiring ... Havelock Ellis's Psychology of Sex: even her father was not able to go straight to a shop...Viscountess Rhondda Havelock EllisThe Psychology of SexPrint: Book
1900-1945[the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual development of the time, discovering such writers as B...Edwin Muir Havelock Ellis Print: Book
1900-1945'like any bright young intellectual of his day, he was greatly influenced by Freud and writers on sex, such as Havelock Ellis and Norman Haire, who had taken their cue fr...Lawrence Durrell Havelock Ellis[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I have just completed Havelock Ellis? ?From Rousseau to Proust?, a kind of psychological survey of the ?subjective? writers of the period between the two named. It wa...Winifred Agnes Moore Havelock EllisFrom Rousseau to ProustPrint: Book
1900-1945 On your recommendation I have just bought 'The Dance of Life' and am reading it. It repayeth perusal, & I thank thee. (But I have been an admirer of Havelock for 30 ye...Arnold Bennett Havelock EllisThe Dance of LifePrint: Book
1900-1945'If you have not read "The Believing Bishop" by Havergall Bates (whoever he may be) [George Allen] let me recommend it to you as a fine disturbing book'. Arnold Bennett Havergall BatesThe Believing BishopPrint: Book
1900-1945Reading Berlioz’s 'Soirées de L’Orchestre' the other day I found that an opera on the Aztec subject was actually written and composed in Berlioz’s time. Arnold Bennett Hector BerliozSoirées de l'OrchestrePrint: Book


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