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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'In the months leading up to the First World War, C.H. Rolph learned shorthand by taking dictation as his father read from the Daily Telegraph, The Times, the Referee and...C.H. Rolph The Daily TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I could read "The Daisy Chain" or "The Wide Wide World", and just take the religion as the queer habits of those sorts of people, exactly as if I were reading a story ab...Gwen Raverat Charlotte Mary YongeThe Daisy ChainPrint: Book
1850-1899'So in time she was able to read Grimms' "Fairy Tales", "Gulliver's Travels", "The Daisy Chain" and Mrs. Molesworth's "Cuckoo Clock" and "Carrots".'Flora Thompson Joan O'NeillThe Daisy ChainPrint: Book
1900-1945 On your recommendation I have just bought 'The Dance of Life' and am reading it. It repayeth perusal, & I thank thee. (But I have been an admirer of Havelock for 30 ye...Arnold Bennett Havelock EllisThe Dance of LifePrint: Book
1900-1945'I like "The Dark Flower" very much, & wrote to tell Galsworthy so?a thing I have never done before about a book of his, though he is a friend of mine.' Arnold Bennett John GalsworthyThe Dark FlowerPrint: Book
1900-1945'It's no end good to think you like the book ["The Dark Flower"].'Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyThe Dark FlowerPrint: 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'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
1850-1899'Again and again I turned to something entitled "The Dark Journey", only to find it was an account of one's digestion. You may wonder why I did this more than once, but I...Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes The Dark JourneyPrint: Serial / periodical, Bound volumes of a periodical
1900-1945My mother read it [The Flight of the Heron] with pleasure, but not with the passion I felt but which it seems I successfully hid from her. She soon got on to the sequels,...Harriet Beer D.K. BrosterThe Dark MilePrint: Book
1900-1945My mother read it [The Flight of the Heron] with pleasure, but not with the passion I felt but which it seems I successfully hid from her. She soon got on to the sequels,...Patricia Beer D.K. BrosterThe Dark MilePrint: Book
1900-1945'The note announced, a little defiantly, that the writer had read, "with the utmost pleasure," my novel "The Dark Tide", and asked me in return to accept "the enclosed" -...Vera BrittainThe Dark TidePrint: Book
1900-1945After listing some canonical writers discussed by Pound and whom Ford had never read he then goes on to write: 'On the other hand I possess a certain patience and, if I...Ford Madox Ford Charles Montagu DoughtyThe Dawn in BritainPrint: Book
1900-1945'Such a shocked surprise came to me the pther day on opening T.F. Henderson's book on "Scottish Vernacular Literature" to find out what he had to say by way of comment on...William Soutar Alexander HumeThe Day EstivallPrint: Book
1850-1899'Among the writers who deserve attention the first is Rudyard Kipling (his last book,”The Day’s Work”, a novel[sic]). J.M. Barrie—a Scotsman. His last book “Sentimenta...Joseph Conrad Rudyard KiplingThe Day's WorkPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Genius ? From "The Dead and the Living"'; [Text] 'Oh genius thou bright emanation of the/ Divinity, thou brilliant s...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine AnonThe Dead and the Living [extract]Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The dead friend'; [Text] 'Not to the grave, not to the grave, my soul/ Descend to contemplate/ The form that once wa...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Anon]The dead friendPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Harriet Martineau to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 August 1843: 'I owe to you many many moments of pleasure, some ideas (rare gifts in this age!) & no small feeling of compla...Harriet Martineau Elizabeth BarrettThe Dead PanUnknown
1900-1945'Four one act plays were then read: "Windows by J. Galsworthy, "the Dear Departed" by Stanley Houghton, "The Boy Comes Home" by A. A. Milne, "Fame & the Poet" by Lord ...Members of XII Book ClubStanley HoughtonThe Dear DepartedPrint: Book
'Meeting held at “Frensham” 8th July 1944
Howard R. Smith in the chair.

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7. “Love Came In” by Beatrice Saxon-Snell was read with...		Bruce Dilks Stanley HoughtonThe Dear DepartedPrint: Book


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