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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[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas....questionaire respondent Herbert George Wells[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Jude the Obscure, Edward Carpenter's Love's Coming of Age, Grant Allen's The Woman Who Did, H.G. Well's The New Machiavelli and Ann Veronica, as well as the examples of ...Eva Slawson Herbert George WellsThe New MachiavelliPrint: Book
1900-1945'Jude the Obscure, Edward Carpenter's Love's Coming of Age, Grant Allen's The Woman Who Did, H.G. Well's The New Machiavelli and Ann Veronica, as well as the examples of ...Eva Slawson Herbert George WellsAnn VeronicaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Percy Wall described his [colliery] institute as a "blatantly utilitarian" building with a "square cemented front" and a "drab, poorly lit" reading room, but it offered ...Percy Wall Herbert George Wells Print: 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 Herbert George Wells Print: Book
1900-1945'George Scott left school and the boys' weeklies behind at fifteen: in barely a year he had absorbed enough Shaw, Wells, Dos Passos and (secondhand) Marx to lecture his p...George Scott Herbert George Wells[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'"[Penny dreadfuls] were thrilling, absolutely without sex interest, and of a high moral standard", explained London hatmaker Frederick Willis. "No boy would be any the w...Frederick Willis Herbert George Wells Print: Book
1900-1945'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester Reference Library. There he discovered, Adam Smith,...Joseph Toole Herbert George Wells[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Bennett, Galsworthy, Edith Wharton and Willa Cather'.Herbert Ernest Bates Herbert George Wells[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'[Ethel] Mannin was firmly rooted in the autodidact tradition. In her father's library she enjoyed Gissing and Wells, "Adam Bede" and "The Cloister and the Hearth". A Cla...Ethel Mannin Herbert George Wells[unknownPrint: Book
1900-1945As for me I am reading Wells on history! I think it wickeder than I did: but it's an amazing piece of book-making. When he gets past clerical & medieval times he's quite ...Ford Madox Ford Herbert George Wells Outline of History, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'behind my back, E.J. is reading H.G.'s [underlined] Outline of History [end underlining] & making riotous comments on Amenhotep IV who she declares is a lidie with two h...Esther Julia Ford Herbert George WellsOutline of History, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Owen met H.G. Wells in November, one of the leading writers about the war and its politics, an advocate of internationalism, efficiency, the defeat of militarism by mili...Wilfred Owen Herbert George Wells Print: Book
1900-1945'The meeting then considered the work of H.G. Wells. The chief item of interest was undoubtedly a paper by Henry M. Wallis upon Wells's romances but a better title would ...Reginald Robson Herbert George Wells[a short story]Print: Book
1900-1945'The meeting then considered the work of H.G. Wells. The chief item of interest was undoubtedly a paper by Henry M. Wallis upon Wells's romances but a better title would ...Henry Marriage Wallis Herbert George Wells[novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'The meeting then considered the work of H.G. Wells. The chief item of interest was undoubtedly a paper by Henry M. Wallis upon Wells's romances but a better title would ...Elizabeth Ann Smith Herbert George WellsMankind in the MakingPrint: Book
1900-1945'The meeting then considered the work of H.G. Wells. The chief item of interest was undoubtedly a paper by Henry M. Wallis upon Wells's romances but a better title would ...Mary Hayward Herbert George Wells[novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'The meeting then considered the work of H.G. Wells. The chief item of interest was undoubtedly a paper by Henry M. Wallis upon Wells's romances but a better title would ...Mary Hayward Herbert George Wells[extracts from novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'The meeting then continued the discussion of H.G. Wells & his religious development. C.E. Stansfield had prepared an able paper dealing with this subject. He traced the ...Charles Stansfield Herbert George WellsFirst and Last Things. Confession of Faith and Rul...Print: Book
1900-1945'The meeting then continued the discussion of H.G. Wells & his religious development. C.E. Stansfield had prepared an able paper dealing with this subject. He traced the ...Charles Stansfield Herbert George WellsGod the Invisible KingPrint: Book


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