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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‘Please send Gillette blades, and obtain a reserve of 12! Have just read a wonderful book by R. H. Benson: "Where no Fear Was", a collection of spiritual Essays. Why ...Wilfred Owen A. C. BensonWhere No Fear Was: A Book about FearPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Read Wells’ article in today’s Mail. Most important. I enclose it.’Wilfred Owen Herbert George WellsThe First-Class Air Fighter: Is He Going to Be the...Print: Newspaper
1900-1945‘Reading East Lynne’George Adcock Weston Ellen WoodEast LynnePrint: Book
1900-1945‘Received the Books last night, and spent an exciting few minutes looking through the poems. I congratulate you on the Binding & Type.’Wilfred Owen Leslie GunstonThe Nymph and Other PoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945‘See … p. 54 "Sphere" for a good peep at Swinburne. Dam disgusting, excuse me … Have you seen Arnold Bennett’s "Pretty Lady". Fortunately I just secured my copy befor...Wilfred Owen Sphere: An Illustrated Newspaper for the HomePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945‘See … p. 54 "Sphere" for a good peep at Swinburne. Dam disgusting, excuse me … Have you seen Arnold Bennett’s "Pretty Lady". Fortunately I just secured my copy befor...Wilfred Owen Arnold BennettThe Pretty LadyPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Shelley is a wash out here, as a general thing. I will try Keats next. But W. W. and R. B. really are the two. Please don’t send me any more for a bit. And then s’il...Ivor Bertie Gurney Percy Bysshe Shelley(poems)Print: Book
1800-1849‘So true is Wordsworth’s observation (somebody has borrow’d my Wordsworth, and I’m like a Jack Tar without his tobacco pouch) that the older we grow, the more we become...Hartley Coleridge William Wordsworth[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945‘Someone has lent me two of Tchekof’s [Chekhov]'s plays—"The Sea-gull" and "The Cherry Orchard". The first I have read twice and am very struck with it—for its truth ...Ivor Bertie Gurney Anton ChekhovThe SeagullPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Someone has lent me two of Tchekof’s [Chekhov]'s plays—"The Sea-gull" and "The Cherry Orchard". The first I have read twice and am very struck with it—for its truth ...Ivor Bertie Gurney Gerhart HauptmannThe Sunken BellPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Sorry I forgot to mail you my opinion of Israel Zangwill. I admire him enormously and like him about as much. He reminds me often of the author of Revelations in his...Charles Hamilton Sorley Israel ZangwillDreamers of the GhettoPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Sorry I forgot to mail you my opinion of Israel Zangwill. I admire him enormously and like him about as much. He reminds me often of the author of Revelations in his...Charles Hamilton Sorley Bible (Revelations)Print: Book
1900-1945‘Still, in daytime, we sometimes got out of the trench into the tall sorrelled grass behind, which the sun had dried, and enjoyed a warm indolence with a book (not “Infan...Edmund Blunden unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849‘Talking of Doctors, there is another volume of the Doctor forthcoming. What a wonderful energy of intellect, that can produce such a work under such circumstances. And...Hartley Coleridge Robert SoutheyThe DoctorPrint: Book
1800-1849‘Talking of this, my Sara, what d’ye think / (To ask the question is but waste of Ink) / Of Harriet Martineau’s political novels? / Fine food, forsooth, for starving pa...Hartley Coleridge Harriet Martineau[novels]Print: Book
1800-1849‘Thanks for Swing and the Athenaeum which is very welcome, and well worth Two-pence’.Hartley Coleridge [n/a] [n/a]AthenaeumPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945‘Thanks very much for the papers. I liked the article on the Somme Cinemas; of course Chesterton on Zangwill was nearer home; but C seems sly and certainly anti Jewis...Isaac Rosenberg [newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945‘Thanks very much indeed for the letter and Lit. Sups, and especially for "Satires of Circumstance". I had not got it or ordered it but had often been thinking of doi...Charles Hamilton Sorley Thomas HardySatires of Circumstance: Lyrics and Reveries; with...Print: Book
1900-1945‘Thanks very much indeed for the letter and Lit. Sups, and especially for "Satires of Circumstance". I had not got it or ordered it but had often been thinking of doi...Charles Hamilton Sorley Thomas HardyThe Dynasts: A Drama of the Napoleonic WarsPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Thanks very much indeed for the letter and Lit. Sups, and especially for "Satires of Circumstance". I had not got it or ordered it but had often been thinking of doi...Charles Hamilton Sorley Times Literary SupplementPrint: Serial / periodical


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