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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
 
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'We [Hilary and schoolfellows] used to recommend things to each other a lot, and we had crazes – Georgette Heyer, D.K. Broster, Cronin, Axel Munt...Hilary Spalding Hugh Walpole[novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'The subject for the evening Hugh Walpole was then taken F.E. Pollard giving us a brief outline of the writer's life. Mrs Robson read from "Fortitude" & Mrs Pollard from ...Mary Robson Hugh WalpoleFortitudePrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject for the evening Hugh Walpole was then taken F.E. Pollard giving us a brief outline of the writer's life. Mrs Robson read from "Fortitude" & Mrs Pollard from ...Mary Pollard Hugh WalpoleSecret City, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject for the evening Hugh Walpole was then taken F.E. Pollard giving us a brief outline of the writer's life. Mrs Robson read from "Fortitude" & Mrs Pollard from ...Charles Stansfield Hugh WalpoleJeremyPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject for the evening Hugh Walpole was then taken F.E. Pollard giving us a brief outline of the writer's life. Mrs Robson read from "Fortitude" & Mrs Pollard from ...Reginald Robson Hugh WalpoleCathedral, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject for the evening Hugh Walpole was then taken F.E. Pollard giving us a brief outline of the writer's life. Mrs Robson read from "Fortitude" & Mrs Pollard from ...Howard R. Smith Hugh Walpole Print: Book
1900-1945'"The Green Mirror" reached me alright.[...] I didn't write to you about it as I expected almost every day to have you here for a talk about that and other things.'Joseph Conrad Hugh WalpoleThe Green MirrorPrint: Book
1900-1945'I started reading my inscribed copy [of "Mr Perrin and Mr Traill"] straight away. How well (and freshly) all this is done!' [Hence follow four more lines of appreciative...Joseph Conrad Hugh WalpoleMr Perrin and Mr Traill: A Tragi-Comedy.Print: Book
1900-1945

'This is only to tell you that I have read the book.'


[Hence follow six lines of praise.]

Joseph Conrad Hugh WalpoleThe Captives: A Novel in Four PartsPrint: Book
1900-1945'And first of all my tender thanks for the copy of the limited edition [...]. The reading of it was an absorbing experience.'Joseph Conrad Hugh WalpoleThe Young Enchanted: A Romantic StoryPrint: Book
1900-1945Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd., 20.XII.33.
E. Dorothy Brain in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved

[...]

7....		Dorothy Brain Hugh WalpoleMr. Perrin and Mr. TraillPrint: Book
1900-1945Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd., 20.XII.33.
E. Dorothy Brain in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved

[...]

7....		Edgar Castle Hugh WalpoleJeremy at CralePrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of Tolstoy & his works was then taken. R. H. Robson gave a brief outline of his life. T. C. Elliott gave a reading from Faussett's "Inner Drama of Tolstoy". ...T. C. Elliott Hugh I'Anson FaussettTolstoy; The inner dramaPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Hugh James RoseProlusio in Curia Cantabrigiensi recitataPrint: Book
1900-1945'We started before 6 but, though the distance is short, the difficult going prevented us reaching here till 10.30 ... What a place it'll be to spend the night! ... ...Robert Dunlop Smith Hugh Latimer HaughtonSport and Folklore on the HimalayaPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Hugh of Saint Victor De SacramentisPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 11 March 1827: 'I thanked you, in my last note, for sending me your works, -- & now, having read them, I have it in my power to ...Elizabeth Barrett Hugh Stuart Boyd'A Day of Pleasure at Malvern'Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 11 March 1827: 'I thanked you, in my last note, for sending me your works, -- & now, having read them, I have it in my power t...Elizabeth Barrett Hugh Stuart BoydA Malvern TaleUnknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 11 March 1827: 'I thanked you, in my last note, for sending me your works, -- & now, having read them, I have it in my power t...Elizabeth Barrett Hugh Stuart BoydPrologue and Epilogue to poems of St GregoryUnknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 11 March 1827: 'I thanked you, in my last note, for sending me your works, -- & now, having read them, I have it in my power t...Elizabeth Barrett Hugh Stuart Boyd'Elegy'Unknown


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