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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
 
1850-1899'Thanks for the newspapers and for having marked them. Baildon has rather got it; I cannot but feel sympathy with the reviewer.'Robert Louis Stevenson The Scotsman/Edinburgh CourantPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Thanks for the old numbers; they are very interesting, and what vigour in them! - but one could not speak so strongly now.'Margaret Oliphant Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Thanks for the play ["The Feud"] which reached me today and as you may imagine was read at once.' Hence follow a page of praise, including a comparison with the middle p...Joseph Conrad Edward GarnettThe FeudPrint: playscript
1900-1945'Thanks for the press cuttings. The accident on board that ship was an extraordinary one.'Joseph Conrad W. A. H. MullA True Story: Loss and Record of the Wreck of the ...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Thanks for the vol. Chaffery is immense. The thing as a whole remarkable in its effects.' Hence follow five more lines of praise. Joseph Conrad H.G. Wells Love and Mr LewishamPrint: Book
1850-1899'Thanks for your letter & the book. A word in reference to the former. I can?t boast that I discovered what purports to be the "central idea" of the novel for myself...Arnold Bennett Maurice BarresLe Jardin de BerenicePrint: Book
1900-1945'Thanks for your pamphlet, to which I responded with every feeling and conviction that go to make up my "less perishable" being. And how beautifully all those deeply felt...Joseph Conrad William RothensteinA Plea for a Wider Use of Artists and CraftsmenPrint: Pamphlet
1900-1945'Thanks most awfully for the topping parcel of Xmas things. The pipe's ripping & so are the cigarettes & I am sure the books will be most interesting.'Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thanks most awfully for your letters & parcels, the gloves were "topping" also the books — I have read most of them but will read them again!'Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thanks my dearest fellow for the Che[k]hov vol. He is too delightful for words. Very great work. Very great. Do tell your wife of my admiration that grows and grows with...Joseph Conrad Anton ChekhovThe Cook's Wedding and Other StoriesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thanks so much for your letter & the little Book. (The Vision Splendid by John Oxenham) That was a ripping little poem wasn't it? I guess it's just about right!' Guy Mainwaring Knocker John Oxenham (pseud.)The Vision SplendidPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thanks so much for your two letters & the copies of "Flying" books — very good. I am afraid I didn't think much of Boyd Cable's story "Quick Work". The maniac of a pilot...Guy Mainwaring Knocker Boyd Cable (pseud.)'Quick Work'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Thanks so much for your two letters & the copies of "Flying" books — very good. I am afraid I didn't think much of Boyd Cable's story "Quick Work". The maniac of a pilot...Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknown'Impressions of Leave'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Thanks to the efficiency of Mr Kydd, we were overtaken here by a runner, and spent a pleasant half-hour in the shade reading letters from home, and the latest sensations...Frank Smythe newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Thanks too for the Chinese books. I have already looked at the introduction and certain sections of the "Lute [of Jade]". Very fine. Extraordinary subtle feeling I'll wr...Joseph Conrad L.[Lancelot] Cranmer-ByngA Lute of Jade: Being Selections from the Classica...Print: Book
1900-1945'Thanks very much for the book and the "Spectator" page.[...] These are all delightful pieces. You must autograph the book for me.' Joseph Conrad unknown unknown Fragments from an Officer's Diary in Southern Pol...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Thanks very much for the book and the "Spectator" page.[...] These are all delightful pieces. You must autograph the book for me.' Joseph Conrad W. H. (William Henry) Davieseither The Bird of Paradise and other Poems OR Na...Print: Book
1900-1945'Thanks very much for the books. You are indeed very good to me. Hudson's volume is fine, very fine, infinitely loveable, and as one reads on, one feels one's affection i...Joseph Conrad W.H.(William Henry) HudsonA Shepherd's Life: Impressions of the South Wiltsh...Print: Book
1900-1945'Thanks very much for your sympathetic book. It is vividly interesting (I am on p.70) and am flattered to think that its writer, who knows so much of human affairs, think...Joseph Conrad unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thanks very much indeed for the mail I had this afternoon, three letters & the "Weekly Sentinel". It bucked me up considerably as I had not heard from you for some...John Lawton Staffordshire Weekly SentinelPrint: Newspaper


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