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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''The MS heralded by your letter arrived this morning. I've had the time to read it . it is wonderfully well done: technically and in the clearness of the idea it is supe...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyThe Cosmopolitan (eventually known as A Knight)Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I wanted to write to you about Your book [...] you know how paralysed one is sometimes-- and then we had talked--I had tried to talk of the book so many times that it se...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyThe Villa RubeinPrint: Book
1900-1945'I've read "The Silence" once but shall keep it till tomorrow. Certain remarks I keep for a note which I will send you together with the MS. Here I will only say that I ...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyThe SilenceManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Nevertheless I've read the book ["A Man of Devon"] twice'. Hence follows a page of constructive criticism. Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyA Man of DevonPrint: Book
1900-1945'It ["The Freelands"] is a most beautifully done thing. [...]. I kept your book for a propitious day and finished it about midnight. Then I put out the light opened the w...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyThe FreelandsPrint: Book, Pamphlet
1900-1945'Thanks for the book ["The Little Man"]. "Abracadabra" is immense. Indeed every page is as full as it can be right through the book.' Hence follow five more lines of pra...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyThe Little Man and other satiresPrint: Book
1900-1945'The book ["The Man of Property"] is in parts marvellously done and in its whole a piece of art-undubitably [sic] a piece of art. I've read it 3 times. My respect for you...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyThe Man of PropertyManuscript: presumably copy of MS which had been sent for publication, or the page proofs, since the book was not published until 23 March 1906
1900-1945'I've read Jack's article in the "Speaker". Hum! Hum! He had better be careful.'Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyWanted - Schooling in FictionPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'My dearest Jack I read the "C[ountry H[ouse]" with perfectly unalloyed delight. [...] I can only say it came to me in book form with a freshness, with a force, with an a...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyThe Country HousePrint: Book
1900-1945' I didn't write before because I was finishing something. That does not mean that I did not read the play ["Joy"] at once. I've read it more than once the very first day...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyJoyPrint: probably a playscript
1900-1945'The new edition of the "Island Ph[arisee]" arrived during the crisis of horrors [severe gout and the debilitating effects of the then new colchicine treatment] and I tac...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyThe Island PhariseesPrint: Book
1900-1945'These things [proofs of "The Little Man"] are much too exquisite and poignant to be really satire even if you prefer to call them by that name.' Hence follow twelve lin...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyThe Little Man and other satiresPrint: galley proofs
1900-1945'The book arrived by the first post.[...] [it] might be described as an appalling indictment of the middle classes--[...] But in the introspective silence that came over...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyA CommentaryPrint: Book
1900-1945'I found Jessie crazy with tooth ache which lasted all day, and transported--it's the only word for it--with admiration of the fifteen chapters, it appears, she has read ...Jessie Conrad John GalsworthyFraternityManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'In H. James " Little Tour of France" (which I will send to Ada [Galsworthy] to take west with her for leisurely reading) there occurs a simple sentence which came forcib...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyFraternityManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'From one point of view I've nothing but admiration for the ending of "Shadows" ["Fraternity"].Its naturalness is appalling. Of course it can be attacked but its quality ...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyFraternityManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'Both Jessie and I are very much struck with "[A] Fisher of Men".'Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyA Fisher of MenPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'A fine book dearest boy! I've read it several times. There's a breadth, an ease in it which gives one a quite new view of John Galsworthy.The humanity of it is infinit...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyFraternityPrint: Book
1900-1945'I like immensely your verse in the last E[nglish R[eview]. The second piece for choice but as a matter of fact I like best the one I am reading at the time.' Joseph Conrad John Galsworthyunspecified poem(s)Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'This ["The Eldest Son"] is extremely fine [...]. At the end of each act I got up and walked for a while in a sort of exultation over the sheer art of the thing.' After a...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyThe Eldest SonManuscript: Unknown


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