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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
 
1900-1945Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937-38) include extracts on the art and literature of different historical periods from Les Grands T...Edward Morgan Forster Jean Freville, trans. and ed.Sur la Litterature et l'Art: Karl Marx, Friedrich ...Print: Book
1900-1945'If you don't know already it may interest you to know that in Anatole France's last book ["Sur la pierre blanche"] there are two allusions to you.' Hence follow eleven...Joseph Conrad Anatole France Sur la pierre blanchePrint: 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 George SavaSurgeon's Destiny, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have almost finished "The Surgeon's Log". The first fiction book of this term!'Hilary Spalding unknownSurgeon's Log, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Off at 5.15 am. Sea smooth. Read 60 pp. of Surgical Diagnosis.'Albert Ruskin Cook Edward MartinSurgical DiagnosisPrint: Book
1900-1945'Beira all day — am getting on with Surgical Diagnosis, & Tropical Diseases by Stitt.'Albert Ruskin Cook Edward MartinSurgical DiagnosisPrint: BookManuscript: Letter, telegram
1900-1945'Finished Surgical Diagnosis by Martin 750 pp.'Albert Ruskin Cook Edward MartinSurgical DiagnosisPrint: BookManuscript: Letter, telegram
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
A. Medical.
Surgical Diagnosis – Martin
Tropical Diseases – Stitt
Abdominal Injuries – Morison & R.
Household ...		Albert Ruskin Cook Edward MartinSurgical DiagnosisPrint: Book
1850-1899'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black,...Alfred Tennyson Frances Hodgson BurnettSurly Tim: A Lancashire StoryPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I have read Susan Hopley - the incidents are improbable but the Book took me on - and I kept reading it'.Sydney Smith [Mrs] CroweSusan HopleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I don't think one does [italics] admire [end italics] (it is far too good a word to be used on the subject) 'Susan Hopley'; it is a series of most unnatural adventures, ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Catherine CroweSusan HopleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'In a short time after, I procured the "Life of Susan Hopley", and felt disappointed at finding it to be a work of fiction.' [However, Ashford was inspired by this work t...Mary Ann Ashford Catherine CroweSusan Hopley; or the Adventures of a Maid ServantPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Winifred did not care, for she was reading Conrad's "Suspense" - a noble and spacious book which made the early nineteenth century come alive for her in a clear yet fain...Winifred Holtby Joseph ConradSuspensePrint: Book
1700-1799'Dulness is not confined to them [Bishops], it descends to their Sons, witness our celebrated Comedy, [italics] The Suspicious Husband [end italics], which, but for its n...Laetitia Pilkington Benjamin HoadlySuspicious Husband, ThePrint: Unknown
1900-1945'De Quincey was the subject before the paper & number of extracts [sic] & two papers, one read by Mrs Rawlings & one by Miss Cole, gave a very interesting introduction to...Constance Wallis Thomas de QuinceySuspiria de ProfundisPrint: Book
1700-1799'Saw in the Lewes newspaper of this day that on Saturday last there was several explosions heard in the bowels of the earth like an earthquake in the parishes of Waldron ...Thomas Turner Sussex Weekly Advertiser, or Lewes JournalPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'This day I saw in the "Lewes Journal", which was an extract from "The Gazette", that our troops under the command of the Duke of Marlborough had landed at St Malo in the...Thomas Turner Sussex Weekly Advertiser, or Lewes JournalPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899
1900-1945		'About "The Crown of Life", It is almost the only one of G. G. [George Gissing]'s books I haven’t read. It didn’t appeal to me—it was not a good Gissing book. Just ...William Henry Hudson Louise Chandler MoultonSwallow-flights [and Other Verses]Print: Book
1900-1945'I've lately read nothing but Marcel Proust.'Joseph Conrad Marcel ProustSwann's Way (Du coté de chez SwannPrint: Book
1900-1945'In the volumes you sent me I was much more interested and fascinated by your rendering than by Proust's creation.'
[Hence follows another page and a half of com...		Joseph Conrad Marcel ProustSwann's Way (Du coté de chez SwannPrint: Book


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