the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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Brooks : unknown

'15th March 1929 Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, de Quincey -- in short, a browse. We looked at ?Phiz? illustrations to ?Sketches by Boz? and she talked of Wilhelm Busch as the greatest of German pencil artists.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

Mr Brooks : [poem]

'I have received the foregoing little poem from a townsman of your's which I think so good I transmit it to you for insertion in the Juvenile Keepsake and hope you will oblige me by giving it a place'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Manuscript: Sheet

Van Wyck Brooks : The Ordeal of Mark Twain

'The Ordeal of Mark Twain by a bothered and bothering American of the psychoanalysing 20s has succeeded in bothering me a bit [discusses text further, drawing comparisons between Twain's, and own, experiences of ageing and senses of failure].'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

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