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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'Taxi driver Herbert Hodge...knew that years on the dole only produced apathy, and that out of work men wanted practical help in dealing with the Board of Guardians far m...Herbert Hodge Henri-Louis Bergson Print: Book
1850-1899'You never no, [italics] never [end italics] - sent a more acceptable present than Cousin Stella & The Fool of Quality, - and that irrespective of their several merits. B...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Henrietta JenkinCousin StellaPrint: Book
1850-1899'You never no, [italics] never [end italics] - sent a more acceptable present than Cousin Stella & The Fool of Quality, - and that irrespective of their several merits. B...Margaret Emily Gaskell Henrietta JenkinCousin StellaPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 11 July 1828: 'I will [italics]not[end italics] keep Miss Muschett's poem, -- notwithstanding your kind permission [...] My gene...Elizabeth Barrett Henrietta MuschettpoemPrint: Book
1850-1899'Mr & Mrs Clarke & Ly Coltman were all full of "Cousin Stella" & I had quite a reflected lustre from the fact that I knew & could tell them all about the authoress'.Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Henrietta Camilla JenkinCousin StellaPrint: Book
1850-1899'I strongly recommend ''The Life of Henrietta Kerr'' — a nun ... The book is very entertaining as well as interesting.'Emma Darwin Henrietta Mary Emma Kerr. ed. John Morris, S.J.The Life of Mother Henrietta Kerr, Religious of th...Print: Book
1850-1899'Read "La dame aux cheveux gris" all the evening to my mother.'John Ruskin Henriette CabrieresLa dame aux cheveux grisPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 April 1845: 'We shall find no where on the earth, I believe, the climate of Paradise; -- not even at Hyeres. In Mdme. Cha...Elizabeth Barrett Henriette Etiennette Fanny ReybaudDeux a deuxPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ...Helen Crawfurd Henrik IbsenGhostsPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ...Helen Crawfurd Henrik IbsenA Doll's HousePrint: Book
1900-1945'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night shift at a railway station, Hanley withdrew into the ...James Hanley Henrik Ibsen[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'The poet Clare Cameron, born Winifred Wells to a London blacksmith, was a 15s a week clerk given to artistic ecstasies... She ate cheap lunches at Lyons to save money fo...Clare Cameron Henrik Ibsen[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 28 April 1891: "I return the Ibsenite volume with many thanks -- especially for the opportunity to read your charming preface which is really...Henry James Henrik IbsenRosmersholmPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 28 April 1891: "I return the Ibsenite volume with many thanks -- especially for the opportunity to read your charming preface which is really...Henry James Henrik IbsenGhostsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Spent most of the morning in bed reading Ibsen's "Ghosts", which is a masterpiece, I think.'Hilary Spalding Henrik IbsenGhostsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Wednesday, 27th January, Smith spoke of having wished to be a school master. He would like, even now, to get a bursary to Oxford or Cambridge. We talked of the diffi...Gerald Moore Henrik IbsenPeer GyntPrint: Book
1900-1945'Friday, 29th January, I do not like ?Brand?. A religion that takes no account of actuality is no use to humanity. And, after all I think that religion was made for man...Gerald Moore Henrik IbsenBrandPrint: Book
1900-1945Under heading 'Peer Gynt': 'The main ideas of this great and bitter poem become clearer at this last hasty reading (3-1-28) though my former criticism stands [i.e. that i...Edward Morgan Forster Henrik IbsenPeer GyntPrint: Book
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1900-1945		Under heading 'Peer Gynt': 'The main ideas of this great and bitter poem become clearer at this last hasty reading (3-1-28) though my former criticism stands [i.e. that i...Edward Morgan Forster Henrik IbsenPeer GyntPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include five extracts from letters of Ibsen, noted as 'Copied from some notes made for lecturing on I[bse...Edward Morgan Forster Henrik Ibsenpassages from The Correspondence of Henrik IbsenManuscript: Unknown


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