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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[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 Hugh WalpoleCathedral, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Didn't do much work as was reading "The Killer and the Slain", which I don't like much as it's very sordid and morbid.'Hilary Spalding Hugh WalpoleKiller and the Slain, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding Hugh WalpoleRogue HerriesPrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 13 May 1910: 'I "read," in a manner, "Maradick" -- [...] Your book has a great sense and love of life -- but seems to me very nearly as irref...Henry James Hugh WalpoleMaradick at FortyPrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 15 April 1911: 'I congratulate you ever so gladly on Mr. Perrin -- I think the book represents a very marked advance upon its predecessors [....Henry James Hugh WalpoleMr. Perrin and Mr. TraillPrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 13 October 1911: 'I have just been reading the "Standard" [containing Walpole's review of James's "The Outcry"] at breakfast, and I am touche...Henry James Hugh Walpolereview of Henry James, The OutcryPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding Hugh WalpolePortrait of a Man with Red HairPrint: Book
1900-1945'It appeareth to me that you have attempted the impossible in 'The Secret City'. Therefore be not surprised if I think you have not achieved the same.' Arnold Bennett Hugh WalpoleThe Secret CityPrint: Book
1900-1945 Your novel ['The Young Enchanted'] shows once more your most genuine and even devilish gift for narrative. By God you can tell a story! Also the first half of the book...Arnold Bennett Hugh WalpoleThe Young EnchantedPrint: Book
1900-1945'It seems to me that I have to write to you in the same nagging strain as I do to Wells, In spite of my brotherly admonitions & my fatherly threats apropos of previous b...Arnold Bennett Hugh WalpoleThe CaptivesPrint: Book
1900-1945'You shock me. Not by liking "The Way of all Flesh", but by liking "The Devil?s Garden" and "Fortitude" . . . . it is not excusable to lose your head about badness or ...Arnold Bennett Hugh WalpoleFortitudePrint: Book
1900-1945'You shock me. Not by liking "The Way of all Flesh", but by liking "The Devil?s Garden" and "Fortitude" . . . . it is not excusable to lose your head about badness or ...Arnold Bennett Hugh WalpoleMr Perrin and Mr TraillPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 1 September 1931: 'And so a few days of bed & headache & overpowering sleep, sleep descending inexorable as I tried to read Judith Paris, then Ivanhoe. A note on ...Virginia Woolf Hugh WalpoleJudith ParisPrint: Book
1900-1945'Many thanks for the inscribed D.F. ['The Dark Forest'] Overwork has delayed me much with it. I thought the opening rather vague and lacking in direction ? due no doubt ...Arnold Bennett Hugh WalpoleThe Dark ForestPrint: Book
1900-1945 'I don’t think I have concealed from you my opinion that "Fortitude" and "The Duchess" [The Duchess of Wrexe] are not on a level with the other three. [Mr Perrin and Mr ...Arnold Bennett Hugh WalpoleFortitudePrint: Book
1900-1945 'I don’t think I have concealed from you my opinion that "Fortitude" and "The Duchess" [The Duchess of Wrexe] are not on a level with the other three. [Mr Perrin and Mr ...Arnold Bennett Hugh WalpoleThe Duchess of WrexePrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Hugh Walpole, 19 July 1908: 'I can say without preamble that it's good -- the theme is ample and fills the book properly, the development holds one [....Edward Morgan Forster Hugh WalpoleThe Wooden Horse / 'The House of the Trojans'Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'For a day or two after the raid I felt curiously lighthearted; like the hero of Hugh Walpole's "The Dark Forest" - one of the few novels I had read that winter - "I was ...Vera Brittain Hugh WalpoleThe Dark Forest Print: Book
1900-1945'John Buchan was there, brisk and unpretentious, and the bluff and cordial Hugh Walpole, over whose new novel, "The Cathedral", I was to laugh and weep so rapturously in ...Vera Brittain Hugh WalpoleThe CathedralPrint: Book
1900-1945 I wrote a fatherly letter to Hughie & told him the error of his ways & also that I didn’t like 'The Cath'. well enough even to say anything about it to him at all. . . ...Arnold Bennett Hugh WalpoleThe CathedralPrint: Book


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