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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'Church parade over, the day was before us for what we liked ... Jack Hinchcliffe would come across and sit outside the tent chatting and reading the paper before d...Geoffrey Ratcliff Husbands Herbert George WellsKippsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Church parade over, the day was before us for what we liked ... Jack Hinchcliffe would come across and sit outside the tent chatting and reading the paper before d...Geoffrey Ratcliff Husbands Herbert George WellsTono BungayPrint: Book
1900-1945'I've just finished Wells's God the Invisible King. I have to write a criticism of it for the friend who sent it to me ... I began it with the firm convictio...Herbert Edward Read Herbert George WellsGod the Invisible KingPrint: Book
1900-1945I am in the middle of a splendid and much-talked- about book “Joan & Peter” by H.G. Wells, and in it I find a brief description of “Pounce” which was played in the b...Arthur Morris Herbert George WellsJoan and PeterPrint: Book
Marginalia Many pencil sidelines in the Introduction. Donne, against l.52 "cf Good Friday" Herbert, The Collar "surrender to the will of God"; Aaron "old things a...Francis Robert Longworth-Dames Herbert J C GriersonMetaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the seventeenth cen...Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue: 17. 4. 36.
    Ethel C. Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last were read.
Professor ...		Herbert Leader Hawkins Herbert Leader HawkinsThe Fact of EvolutionManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899"As a teenager ... [Holbrook Jackson] had been transported from Merseyside to the South Sea Islands. The vessel that bore him was imagination in the form of a 'musty cop...Holbrook Jackson Herman MelvilleTypeePrint: Book
1900-1945'"Reading for me then was haphazard, unguided, practically uncritical", recalled boilermaker's daughter Marjory Todd. "I slipped all too easily into those traps for the h...Marjory Todd Herman MelvilleMoby DickPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Herman Melville's "The Green Hand" he had read but it "was not much use to me" - a phrase which suggests that already he was reading as a writer reads, with a view to us...John Masefield Herman MelvilleThe Green HandPrint: Book
1850-1899'Herman Melville's "The Green Hand" he had read but it "was not much use to me" - a phrase which suggests that already he was reading as a writer reads, with a view to us...John Masefield Herman MelvilleMoby DickPrint: Book
1900-1945'Wednesday, 10th February, Wrote to Mr Robinson and to Mr. D. Paterson re lecture dates. Read ?Omoo? (Melville)' Gerald Moore Herman MelvilleOmooPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; Lord Salisbury; Old Mortality; Small Talk at Wreylan...Virginia Woolf Herman MelvilleMoby DickPrint: Book
1900-1945Among texts discussed and quoted from in 1926 Commonplace Book of E. M. Forster is Herman Melville, Billy Budd, with remarks including 'Billy Budd [...] has goodness, of ...Edward Morgan Forster Herman MelvilleBilly BuddPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935-6) include two quotations from Herman Melville, Mardi.Edward Morgan Forster Herman MelvilleMardiPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935-6) include quotation from letter of Herman Melville to Nathaniel Hawthorne: ' "I stand for the heart. To...Edward Morgan Forster Herman MelvilleLetter to Nathaniel Hawthorne, ?1 June 1851Print: Book
1900-1945Years ago I looked into "Typee" and "Omoo" but as I didn't find there what I am looking for when I open a book I did go no further. Lately I had in my hand "Moby Dick". I...Joseph Conrad Herman MelvilleMoby Dick or The WhalePrint: Book
1900-1945 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and myself. We both of us have great opportunities for publi...Arnold Bennett Herman MelvilleMoby DickPrint: Book
1900-1945 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and myself. We both of us have great opportunities for publi...Arnold Bennett Herman MelvilleThe Piazza TalesPrint: Book
1900-1945 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and myself. We both of us have great opportunities for publi...Arnold Bennett Herman MelvillePierre: or the AmbiguitiesPrint: Book
1900-1945 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and myself. We both of us have great opportunities for publi...Arnold Bennett Herman MelvilleTypeePrint: Book


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